Hey How Do I Hook Up The Landscape Light Wires?

now you remember this is where it tees off with an other wire that goes over this way these were the waterproof they call these waterproof wire nuts it had some electrical tape around it here's my electrical tape that i pulled off okay and i'm just gonna undo one bunch at a time there's four wires here one going up here one to the light one going that way one going that way so you got four four wire four wires and this is what they call a waterproof wire nut now does that look waterproof to you look at all that gunk in there this this has been down there for 25 years and i'm surprised it even worked and look how saturated the wires look but uh for that reason alone i'm not going to use these wire nuts uh new wire nuts like this i'm just going to use a big wire net um that's just regular and i'm going to put tape on it and it's going to be just as waterproof as this bad boy you see what i mean and that's just what i'm gonna do you can you can do you can do whatever you want okay whatever you feel is the safest and and i thought hey i'm gonna see how the last guy did this if his wires uh to this are are uh smooth to smooth and all that you know what i mean and uh let's just let's just take a test and see uh because i i don't know if anybody does that and like i say i i have not wired these before so i don't know if if you've wired them before you may not you may know see this particular wire uh seems smooth and we'll follow this one back and that yeah that's smooth okay those two wires are smooth now let's look at this one over here and suddenly gone and that one seems that one seems smooth okay and the one coming from the light the old one the one coming from the light looks like it's got ridges on it so all three of the main low voltage wiring the thick ones were smooth and the one coming from the light uh has ridges on it so does it does it matter i don't know because the one coming from the the actual light you know the small wire i would have made smooth to all those now does it matter for just the big wires uh and not the thinner wire from the from the light can you install that uh whatever way you want i'm gonna i'm gonna err on caution and when i hook everything up i'm gonna go smooth to smooth and rough to rough okay so for right now i can just pull this apart i don't have to keep track of these do i i don't i don't have to keep track of those i'm gonna i'm gonna take my light with the small wires that's gonna be gone this is the wire that's going up to the light this is the light this is the wire that's coming from the other end light and this is the wire that's coming uh from over going that way and it almost looks short now because i moved it it's not that short and it'll be fine because see i've got all all this length i got all this length all that length and i've got this link once i put it all together i can i can kind of roll it up like that and put it down into the ground you see what i mean okay but until that time i i've gotta i'm gonna cut these ends off and and when i when i strip wire back when i strip wire back let's let's just okay those are straight when i strip this wire back i have to remember this is 25 year old wire okay you can't just take one thing and this is 12 gauge but you can't use the 12 gauge because it's thicker around the outside i'm using 10 and i can't go like three quarters of an inch and try to jerk it off because it's hard to do so i just i just kind of do it on the 10 all the way around and then i'm gonna pull it off and go a little bit more go around pull it off okay you try that older wire and it will work way better and i gotta i gotta make it about three quarters or so okay that and that's stranded wire so i just kind of do that and now that's ready for connection okay so that's how that's how i'm gonna do uh this wire this edge of the wire i don't even care which one's the the smooth wire edge and which one's the ridge until i do this and then i'll and then i'll carefully figure it out and i'll put a little black piece of electrical tape on the ridge if you put the electrical tape on the smooth then make sure you put it smooth on all your wire on all your smooth wires okay i'm going to do that on this on this one and on this one okay and get it and get those set up you're doing it and whenever i have something to remind you of or to say something i'm going to whip the video camera on and tell you okay obviously i don't want to do this if the timer is on make sure the timer is off but in this case even if the timer was on all these wires aren't connected to the main one which which is that wire coming out of the ground with the wire nuts that goes to the timer okay but even then go back and uh verify that your timer's off right just in case something happened and uh it's on it is low voltage wiring if for some reason you did have the power on chances are it's gonna surprise you but it's not gonna hurt you know what i mean and then you can run back and turn your breaker off or turn your time clock off remembering what video video joe just told you hey make sure the power's off