How To Wire Recessed Lights To Wall Pendants

Here we walk through hanging pendant lights for a recessed light conversion.

How to wire recessed lights to wall pendants.

Black to black and white to white. Use twist on wire connectors to join same color wires. Screw a wire cap onto the spliced joint then connect the short wire to the load. Gently fold the wires into the canopy and secure the pendant light to the threaded studs with two decorative nuts.

Replace recessed lighting with pendant lighting fixtures. Be sure to read and follow the instructions in the light conversion kit. It also comes with mounting plates that you install onto the can lights. Open the recessed light conversion kit.

If your room is wired for recessed lighting making the change isn t as straight forward as just swapping the fixtures. Find other pendant pro. Gather all the supplies and remove the light bulb from the recessed light fixture. Install an led lightbulb in the pendant light.

The best way to do this is to make a pigtail which means to twist all the black wires going to fixtures together with a 6 inch length of spare black wire. Treat a cluster of pendant lights as you would a single hanging fixture. In home run light switch wiring each outgoing hot wire must be connected to the load terminal of the switch. By the rule of thirds in a room with a 10 foot ceiling the chandelier or pendant grouping would hang approximately 3 1 3.

Connect the green wire to the bare copper ground wire. Adding a pendant light to a room is a quick way to add some updated style.