New Lighting in the Basement Workroom (MMR7)

...Okay...so I lied. I do have ONE update that warrants it's own post. I finally got tired of only having one pull string light fixture in the basement workroom, and decided to do something about it other than continue to use a shop light on an extension chord.

There is an exposed junction box in the ceiling (it's an unfinished ceiling in that room) that supplied power to the original light fixture. Since I wanted to put all of the new lights on one switch at the door, I disconnected the light fixture from the junction box and ran a new wire from the box to a new switch location. Then I ran a new wire from the switch location to the first light. I stopped at this point and made all of the appropriate connections in order to get the first light working as a way to check my work up to that point.

After confirming that the first light was working, I installed the remaining ceiling fixture boxes, and ran the appropriate wiring from the first light to the second, second to third, and so on. While I had light in the room, I finished all of the connections and installation of fixtures in lights 2-4 before turning off the breaker and connecting the load wire to light one. Once I turned the breaker back on...let there be light! It works perfectly and there is now MUCH more light down there for me to find tools and prevent accidents.

At some point, I will be replacing one or two of the simple one bulb ceiling fixtures with hard wired shop lights. The great thing about already having a ceiling box at each light is that I can use that as a junction box when wiring the shop lights. This will also provide a good opportunity to run a wire to an air compressor that I got for free that I will be putting in the basement soon.

I love it when a plan comes together...