Connecting Light Fixture Wires

Video Transcript

"Hi, This is Jon and in this clip we will be connecting our wires. Before touching any of my wires, I always recommend testing your wires with some type of a circuit tester, just to verify that there is no power running to them. Coming out of our box, we have three wires. There is a black wire, a white wire, and a bare wire. The black wire is the hot wire, the white wire is the neutral wire, and the bare wire is the ground wire. On our fixture, we also have a white and a black wire and we have a bare wire. Additionally, included with our fixture, were wire nuts. Now, when you're wiring up your fixture, you want to make sure that the white wire is connected to the white wire, the black wire is connected to the black wire, and the ground wire is connected to the ground wire. If there is a grounding screw, make sure you use that grounding screw. After you wire it, go ahead and give the wire nuts a little tug, just to make sure they're not going to come off and that they are securely on there."