Summary: Feeding a wire or a cable over the top or the sides of the fitting is the foremost requirement, if you are planning to install a fluorescent light in the ceiling.
The wire is secured properly with a metal wire connector and this follows firmly anchoring the fitting with bolts or screws.
The user’s manual instructing the fitting procedure can also be referred to. You will have to make wire hooks by using nuts as splices. Adding a grounding jumper or pigtails to furnish the space between the wires inside the fittings and the spot where the main wire joins the fitting wires, is also required.
1. Always remember to first switch off the main power line. Then feed the wires through the fitting’s canopy hole. Normally such fittings are mounted beneath the ceiling box. In case you do not have such an option, wire along to the point where you want to mount the fixture and secure with a metal clamp.
2. Next, drive the screws in the canopy of the fixture into the ceiling joists. If you face a difficulty in doing so, make use of toggle bolts instead of screws.
3. Attach the black wire of the fixture with the hot wire in the main circuit and the white wire of the fixture to the neutral wire. Also remember to connect the earth-points of the circuit and the fixture. Make sure that these are properly attached and taped.
4. Once the wiring is completed, simply place the fluorescent tubes into the holders, adding the diffusion panels over the tubes. Most of these are well designed and easily fall into place.
Under-cabinet fixtures
In the past, the lighting was designed differently. The overhead lamp was usually the only source of light apart from the inflow of natural light from the kitchen windows. But the natural light may vary based on the climatic conditions and different times of the day.
The result being that the light available over important areas of the kitchen is scarce, and not sufficient. To handle such problems, mounting a light on the underside of the cabinets would be a wise choice.
Such lightings are available in different varieties like fluorescent or halogen and even personal "puck"-style halogen fittings.
In comparison to the halogen lights, the fluorescent fittings are cheaper, although the halogen offers a bright lighting. All types of these lighting fittings are easily installed and can be attached to the wire switches comfortably.
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