Thanks for answering the question simply and clearly! God bless you.

Remember, something's only actually "grounded' when it's connected to a circuit equipment ground, meaning ultimately the home run wire/cable back to the panel where the circuit breaker is. If there's effectively no ground wire (or path) back to the panel, it's considered an ungrounded (2-wire) circuit and a GFCI must be used ahead of any device or fixture that requires or contains a factory-installed ground or ground connection. (nec 410.44, ex 2)

This is a nice and clear video. Thank you. I have a 70s house. I found a recessed fixture...no groundwire. The 2 wires I see are the same color.

Thanks you so much you answered the troubling question!!!!!

The real answer, if you come across a box with 2 wires, is to first test the box for ground, see if it's grounded, if not then you have to run a ground wire all the way to the house main ground. If the house isn't grounded at all, you have to establish a ground. Both can be huge jobs.

Young man you did a fantastic job of communicating the steps in a simple and understanding way. Now every person

wood is not a conductor so how is the light grounded? confused

Well done! Quick and to the point. Thank you.

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Excellent teacher. Thank you

Thank you very much! We have an older house, and while a lot of it was fixed up or remodeled before we bought it the plumbing and electrical weren't. I was going crazy!! Thank you again!

Thanks so much for your great lesson.

Easy to use and effective

Thanks for the info!

Very clear. Just what I needed for my 1953 house. So, it doesn't matter if all the wires are touching and crossed at the end?

Thank you!!

At start of video, need to mention importance of making circuit COLD up front. Test that there is no power in wires.

Thanks man

This is sloppy. Wire wrapped around a screw (like the ground wire he attaches here) should be wrapped CLOCKWISE, so that the screw tightens it as it tightens.

Can you get that brace separate from the light or do you have to buy both together?

Interesting how everyone is criticizing this video, but does not say what the proper way of doing it. So what is the proper way of grounding the light fixture in this situation?

Hey man I’m installing a ring camera but I don’t have a ground cable coming out from my wall either so should I do the same as the video ?

The proper way to ground all the metal in this box is to connect the bare equipment grounding conductor to the metal light bracket. One method this can be done using a 6" long piece of stranded #14 with green insulation. Connect it to the EGC of the Romex cable with a wire nut. The use a crimp fork tongue (or ring tongue) crimp lug to connect the new grounding pigtail to the lighting brackets. I would also use a crimp lug on the EGC of the fixture. These should be secured under the green EGC screw. I would then replace the to metal mounting screws with non conductive type screws. Or they must also be grounded.

I'm also a licensed electrician. I watched this video closely and the bare equipment ground conductor from the incoming Romex cable in the top doesn't appear to be connected anywhere. He didn't even address the connection of that wire. This drives electricians crazy.

Greetings. Does this work with ceiling fan? The mobile home doesn't have a ground wire coming from ceiling although the ceiling fan came with a ground wire..???

I have the opposite problem with a Philips Hue Impress; there's a grounding wire coming from the box, but nothing obvious to connect it to in the light fixture 😂👈🏻

Thank you, your video helped me, I have no electrical experience. God bless you.

I have the same situation right now. There is no ground wire available in the circuit. The old light I pulled had a green screw to attache the ground wire to on the support bracket. My thinking is...if the box is metal...the ground wire will send the charge to the box..but no place else as the box is not connected somehow to the "earth ground" system or wire. Since My box is plastic...my understanding is...you cannot get electrocuted by touching it if the ground wire is attached to it....I suppose the purpose at least for me is to keep the ground wire out of the way....since its a ceiling light I don't think it will be too dangerous...but for sure....if part of the light is metal...and its hot...you could get a jolt there I am assuming...so for me I will always just turn off the circuit/light and test including the light body frame it if I ever need to change bulbs or something.

Can this be done in a bathroom

The ground wire out of the Romex needed to be connected to the light ground wire. A pigtail to the ground screw and tie them all together with a wire nut.

I just put up a vanity light exactly like this. Only there is no way to turn off the lights. It's hardwired. The old single light that was on a ceramic base, had a pull chain to turn it on and off. Is there a way to install an on/off toggle switch to the base, or switch out the light screw that has the on/off pull chain?

What if I do have a ground wire coming out of the box but don't have a ground wire coming out of my wood light fixture ?

so, you don't bring the two copper wires together, I was wonder how I was going to get two copper wires pigtailed, underneath that little short green screw- I still don't know

Where is your circuit ground wire connected? It doesn't look like you connected the circuit ground wire to the box or fixture.

So whats the copper wire for?

Sloppy. The comments below have better tips and correct how-to. Thank you people who comment with the right way of doing things.

I have a question. Do I need the fixture plate for a ground? Or can I hook up my ground coming out of my house (3 wire) directly into my light fixture ground wires (2 grounds for dual motion sensor). And just skip right past the ground screw in fixture plate?

Awesome. Thanks

I put up led. Light fixture, there was a bare wire for ground, but no green screw on bracket, the box in the ceiling had black,white and one completely bare wire, am I supposed to hook up the bare wire from light to the bare wire in the box?

How is that now grounded?

If there is no ground such as k&t wiring in box, how u ground it then?

The last 2 daisy chained (power loops in and out to two fixtures) metal fixtures I worked on the first fixture all the bare grounds were twisted together but there was no pigtail to ground the fixture from the bundle of distribution equipment grounds. It was ungrounded but the second fixture the person grounded the fixture properly. Two different houses the DIY electrician left the first fixture ungrounded. Why? Because he's not a license electrician. If a licenced electrician doesn't ground things properly he will eventually be sued. You can count on that.

What's the ground connected to? Nothing? That looks dangerous...

All metal that might become live by an electrical system must be grounded. If a fixture is metal it must be grounded. Once the neutral leaves the main panel it must not be grounded or it floats. If a light switch has a green ground screw and you connect the bare ground wire to it, then the metal light switch box is grounded through the the metal mounting screws. This is not just some opinion. It's a fact. Grounding through the 2 mounting screws has been lab tested by UL. I would say about 20% of metal boxes and fixtures are not grounded. I had one call where a lady said the metal switch boxes in her garage were shocking her grand children. Folks..this is serious stuff and very dangerous.

What do you do with the ground wire that's coming out of the house just Tuck it in and don't connect to anything?

Our house was built in 63 and our entire home Is wired like this no grounds exactly like this. This is older home style wiring when grounds weren’t a thing. Now they want ground on everything for protection. Some of us can’t afford to rewire an entire home. As long as wiring isn’t freyed to touch the box you should be fine in theory. Same for fans as long as there is no fraying or wires touching the electrical box to pose a current you should in theory be fine. Get remotes for fans so you don’t have to touch the pull strings and I doubt anyone Should be touching their light fixtures anyways

the mounting screws weren't even aligned. the light was cockeyed.

Very sloppy adding GND wire to screw - wrapping it counterclockwise, when running the drill, the wire becomes a mess. Wrap it clockwise in the direction of tightening the screw.

As a Licensed electrical Contractor and Professional Engineer, grounding in residential homes (especially older ones) is one of the the things that upsets me the most. I believe amateurs think because a light or receptacle works and he installed it....maybe he thinks it's done right? Just because a light or receptacle is working that they just installed doesn't mean it was done to meet all the NEC requirements and is safe. In my opinion, proper grounding is a common issue and is dangerous if not done correctly..

I tried to do it like this guy and I died. So, now that I’m dead I realize I should NOT have followed these instructions. Thanks e-how and thank you soulless ginger.

what do I do if my lighting fiture is antique and does NOT have the ground wire (it only has white and black) - and I DO have the ground wire in the ceiling - do I just screw the ground wire from ceiling into the grounding screw in box?

Douchebeard states this demo shows "how to hook up a fixture when there's no ground in the electrical box". There is no correct way to do exactly as he states. The correct way is to bring a ground in, which costs money and time, but right is right. Then Douchebeard proceeds to work on a setup that HAS a perfectly good ground wire just dangling in the box. He concludes that somehow the fixture will be magically grounded by wrapping its ground wire (counterclockwise, like an idiot would do) around a screw. That screw is bonded to several metal parts (OK) but then that metal assembly is attached to...... fucking *wood* studs. In the instance of a short to hot in this type of installation the homeowner would be LUCKY if the loose ground lead was pressed hard enough against the inside of the box (and only if a *metal* box) to conduct enough current to trip the circuit breaker. They would be less lucky to touch the lamp if the ground was open and even less lucky if the ground was touching enough to conduct current (heat) but not enough to trip the breaker. As bad as wood is at conducting electricity, it's very good at burning.

Wrong, you are required to GFCI protect grounded (3-wire) light fixtures installed on ungrounded (2-wire) circuits. See NEC 410.44 exception #2.

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Scary, light isn't grounded. Kudos for trying to help but that box needs to be grounded.

What duck happen to the ground wire

bad information here - EVERYTHING should be grounded

This is wrong do not do this if there was pipe going back to breaker box from the light fxicture it would be ok provided the light fixture box is metal as well ,in the breaker box these hard metal pipes the conduit is grounded to the ground bus bar witch in turn the ground bus bar is grounded to a stake in the ground out side with a wire thus creating a true ground from the ligth fixture to the ground outside through the metal pipe hence the Conduit,,,in this example his fixture box is platic there no where for a short or ground to travel if the fixture shorts

Thanks mate. Principles are good and it helped me out. Forget about the people 'splitting hairs' in the other comments.

Wrong

Your ground wire is not connected to anything

Think this video should be pulled down because it’s dangerous. His solution doesn’t ground the fixture (he would need to find the existing ground wire and connect it to the new system), his wiring is not neatly done and he waits until the end of the video to tell people to turn off the breaker before touching the wires (that could kill people).

this ligth fixture is grounded to nothing, this guy is definitely not an electrician .

What the fuck

You should go to woodprix website if you'd like to make it yourself m8s.

Holy crap...he didn't connect the ground (bare wire in Romex) to anything. Connecting the light ground to the screw does nothing at all. That light is not grounded. 911 Likes???? 406k views = how many homes with ungrounded lights???

This is so bad lmao

If you want to build it yourself just google for 'woodprix' . I know you'll find good solutions for your idea.

I don't know how this video came up since I blocked the user. So I reported him because if you follow his instructions, you're risking a serious injury and possibly death.