The copper wire is the ground wire and should be capped and wrapped around a screw in the lightbox.
Hard wire shop lights that have a wall plug in.
Usually you will see 3 wires coming from the box.
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Strip the casing off of the ends of the wires about 1 2 using wire strippers.
You don t have to do a major wiring job.
One wire will be smooth on the side and the other wire will have ribs.
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But what about the ground.
Plug in lights don t have grounds so would it even work.
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I have 2 hardwired lights above my mantle.
Hyperikon 40 watt frosted cover integrated.
The other is wire it to an exterior outlet with a transformer.
Flipping a light switch and watching your yard brighten that is.
You too can have this feeling if you wire outdoor lights to an interior light switch.
I mean it s just two little wires right.
Examine the existing wiring.
Usually a plug in fixture will not have a ground wire so you will not need this wire.
One is to hardwire the lights to the switch itself.
It s a great feeling.
On clear cords they are hard to see but if you run your fingernail over them you can feel them.
Normally that would have been that but alas hobby lobby had lighting lamps on sale for 50 off.
The ribbed wire is the neutral wire and the smooth wire is the hot wire.
One white one black and one copper.
And at 50 each i thought they were a steal but we did not have wiring in the spots where i wanted to hang them.
Rather than open up and rewire the wall because if i m being honest i might will almost definitely rearrange the room sometime and not want sconces there i decided to covert the hard wired lights into plug ins.
In all fairness i wasn t sure if it was safe to convert a plug in light to a hardwired light.
You will also need a screwdriver twist on wire connectors aka wire nuts or marrettes and electrical tape.
Got a lamp you love but no pre wired light box in the wall or ceiling where you d like to hang it.
You can simply re wire the lamp with an extension cord and plug it into an available wall outlet.