Brilliant! Thank you. I had an electrician come do small electrical jobs in my kitchen and he couldn't figure out how to change the old hockey puck lights to the new one led ones and make it look neat. I watched your video, ordered the small junction boxes and in a hour changed 5 of them. I used a dremel to cut the notches in the plastic boxes worked like a charm. Thank you for saving me hiring another electrician. Now might add dimmer these leds are very bright. Thanks again!
Awesome video I’m planing on doing similar way but no cuts in dry wall just drill what you did than fish everything down. I don’t think it’s necessary to cut out that big hole in dry wall You could also cut hole in bottom cabinet and fish up 👍🏻
GREAT video! I'm actually redoing my kitchen and replacing my old puck lights. I didn't know you could snip the plug and make them hardwired. I checked out the ones you mentioned, but hate 2700k. I can't find 4000 - 6000k hardwired (No transformer) pucks ANYWHERE!
Yeah, it's hard to find the exact light quality you like .... I tend to think that dimmed, the 2700k bulbs aren't too bad, but some people notice their color a lot more. Anyway: thanks for checking it out!
Yeah, I used to live in Boston and know what you mean. This country of ours is like a lot of small nations all jammed together. Anyway: thanks for checking out the video!
Great video. What did you do with the ground wire running from the power source to the puck? It looked like there were only two wires from the provided cable you cut. Thanks
Typically I'll use the ground wire to ground the metal junction box, if there is one. With plastic boxes and only two wires to the lights, I typically just terminate the ground wire
At the final connection of the wires, no mention made of polarity, hot side of wire etc. In my case the power source wire is all black, no white-and-black so I had to find the positive side and then make sure I figured out the positive side of the puck's wire.This is tricky and should be mentioned.
Here's a link ... any puck light will work pretty much www.menards.com/main/lighting-ceiling-fans/indoor-lighting/under-cabinet-lighting/patriot-lighting-reg-led-metal-plug-in-under-cabinet-puck-light/0026-0010/p-1465526284675-c-7490.htm?tid=5528418817464348873&ipos=13
I feel like you could have dropped your wires down into the crawl and avoided the drywall repairs. Like if there was a tile backsplash. I have done it and it's not too bad.
@@metaspencer Yes, framing can be a real pain in the butt. I assumed you couldn't, but thought I would add it for others. Nice job though, you definitely have a nice set of skills. Keep up the good work and well done videos.
I’m figuring this out for myself now too. One way I have looked at is pulling the stove. Then you can cut a larger panel out and drill through the studs and replace with a steel cover or just screw a large piece of drywall back on, but not much stress getting it too look real nice. Also suggest cardboard on the counter. The cheap al mg cast drills these days mark up easy.
Why in the world did you cut the lamp wire to use that little J box? If you're cutting the drywall and using that raceway, why didn't you just join the lamp wire to the romex in the wall? Could even have mounted a box in the wall for the connection if you were worried about it, would have been so much cleaner...
Woah, bury a junction and/or junction box in the wall? that's a code violation, man ... there is one UL rated junction device out there that I know of, but they're hard to come by
@@metaspencer Thank you for pointing out the code issue. I had a recent renovation where my electrician did the same thing Mr. nuff'said suggested. Catastrophe. It is a lazy man's solution to a common problem. Unfortunately you see on RU-vid too many amateurs claiming to know how to do some things that are in fact potentially deadly.
