How to Install Intermatic Malibu Low Voltage Landscape Lights
Low voltage landscape lights offer both beauty and security to a home. Installing Malibu low voltage landscape lights is safe for a homeowner who doesn't have any electrical knowledge. Homeowners could select the lights' ideal layout, whether they are to highlight a walkway, light up a garden bed, or accent a tree. These lights come in a kit with a power pack. The power pack gets wired to the landscape lights and plugged into an existing exterior outlet. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Tape measure
- Flat-blade shovel
- Wire strippers
- Phillips screwdriver
- Wooden stakes
- Large screwdriver
Instructions
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Set the Malibu low voltage lights on the ground, indicating each one's placement. The lights should be between 8 to 10 feet apart, with the first light approximately 10 feet from the power source.
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Lay the landscape light's cable in front of the lights. Use a flat-blade shovel to peel the sod back along the path the cable will take. Fold the sod over to expose the dirt underneath. Use the shovel to create a three-inch deep trench in the dirt, where the cable will go.
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Set the cable in the trench. Create a small loop in the cable at the location of each Malibu landscape light. Cover the cable with soil, leaving the loop sticking out of the ground. Fold the sod back over the ground. Push the cable loops through the sod so they stick about one inch above the ground.
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Strip approximately one inch of rubber coating off the end of the cable nearest the power pack's location, using wire strippers. Loosen the screw terminals on the power pack's bottom edge with a Phillips screwdriver. Slide one wire underneath each terminal and tighten the screws to hold the wire in place. It does not matter which screw goes under which terminal.
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Mount the power pack to the side of your home, near an exterior outlet, following your power pack's specific instructions. Most Malibu power packs are secured in place with a set of supplied screws. If you do not want to mount the power pack to your home, pound wooden stakes into the ground near the outlet and mount the power pack to those. Plug the power pack into the outlet.
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Insert a large screwdriver into the ground, next to the first cable loop. Wiggle the screwdriver around to make a hole. This hole will be where the first Malibu light fixture will be inserted into the ground. Move to the next loop and create a hole and then the next loop. Continue until you reach the last loop. As you make these holes, check that the lights are equally spaced from each other as well as from the sidewalk or garden bed.
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Remove the connector from the bottom of the first landscape light. The connector comes in two parts. Place one part on either side of the looped cable and push them together. The landscape light should turn on. If it does not, pull the two pieces of connector apart and push them firmly back together to try to make a connection.
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Push the landscape light's stake into the hole you made in Step 6. Move on to the second landscape light. Connect it to the cable the same way you connected the first light. Move onto the third light. Continue until all Malibu landscape lights have been connected to the cable and are functioning.
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