Do It Yourself Landscape Lighting Part 2, Daisy Chains and Hub Connections

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8 ай бұрын

This is the second in a video series sponsored by Volt lighting. In this one I run 12 gauge wire to the back yard to light up some areca palms. I show in detail the struggles I went through with my inexperience stripping wire and using wire but connectors and a hub for 4 lights at the very back.
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I relied on Volt customer service to ensure that I got the right size wire and transformers. They also helped me pick out the fixtures that would best work for my landscape. The key is for you to draw a map of your property beforehand so you can give them some basic idea of what you are trying to accomplish. Here is everything I used in this video:
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Main Wire Cable:
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@rbljackson 8 ай бұрын

IM LOVING This style of light with the RGB!! What a great way to have year round lighting that can also accent holidays!

@kylehaynes9834 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for the slow and detailed video on wire connections!! You da man Alan! Now I feel capable of doing it myself. 👍🏼💪🏼 A detailed video on setting up the transformer would help too

@Thelawncarenut 8 ай бұрын

For sure! When I do all the final connections I'll spend more time showing the transformer portion.

@Lennymcgra 8 ай бұрын

From no Xmas lights vid last year to a ton this year, love it boss.

@StayInTheWord 8 ай бұрын

Absolutely gorgeous landscape lighting setup. Great video, Bro. Your home looks beautiful with the Christmas lights as well as these landscape lights. I LOVE my Volt Landscape Lighting, especially around my areca palms. Volt definitely isn’t stingy when it comes to extra wire. I’m thinking I might need to upgrade mine to include colored lights. Merry Christmas

@Thelawncarenut 8 ай бұрын

Thanks brother ! I'm really happy we connected ! (You see what I did there? 🤣)

@CHOPPER030279 8 ай бұрын

Alan you did a great job and it looks fantastic. Just a tip I bought a automatic wire stripper, all you do is slide in wire and pull the trigger. It works great . Merry Christmas to all

@Thelawncarenut 8 ай бұрын

Thank you! I've seen those tools at the store but didn't know how to use one lol. They do look like they do a much cleaner job.

@J.A.GCustoms 8 ай бұрын

Love it great video as always. Always Tape in the direction of your wire Nut to keep wire nut tight

@Thelawncarenut 8 ай бұрын

thanks - very good tip! I need to work on that much more.

@stephenmazak7028 8 ай бұрын

Run the main line in pvc to a sprinkler box and make the connections at that point to go out to the lights

@shane6002 8 ай бұрын

Looks amazing your hard work really paid off at some point you should put a snippet of Clark Griswold in the video Happy Holidays

@Thelawncarenut 8 ай бұрын

I will do that for our annual Christmas video for sure.

@mainnerd2222 8 ай бұрын

Love that you're putting out more variety in videos. I've been wondering if I should get someone professional to do my lighting or if I could just do it myself.

@Thelawncarenut 8 ай бұрын

you can 100% do it yourself - it's actually a lot of fun to plan it all out and then see it come to reality when it lights up.

@mainnerd2222 8 ай бұрын

@@Thelawncarenut it would definitely level up my yard. Thanks for these videos.

@steveb365 8 ай бұрын

You can make most spices last indefinitely or at least a lot longer with a blob of dielectric grease inside before closing them up.

@Thelawncarenut 8 ай бұрын

There is some grease inside those wire nuts- I assumed it was for water proofing.

@joeking6309 8 ай бұрын

Between the landscaping and Xmas lighting they will be able to see your house from space 😉

@Thelawncarenut 8 ай бұрын

That's the goal. 🤣

@dylan8285 8 ай бұрын

Those palms look super cool as blue and red have you tried a orange, yellow,red look to see if you can make them look like there on fire that be funny also cool when your out at night by the pool

@Thelawncarenut 8 ай бұрын

I have not played too much with the colors but I do like the blue mixed with pink because it looks like Miami Vice!

@RonSullivanHitting 8 ай бұрын

in part one you connected to transformer. in Part 2 did you just daisy chain part ones "main" connection with part twos main connection, then into transformer?

@Thelawncarenut 8 ай бұрын

hey Ron - thanks for the question. So at 16:44 you can see me hooking the main into the transformer. I know I was not super clear on that. In the first video I ran a 12 gauge main that was for those 3 lights. In this video I ran another 12 gauge main that supplies all the lights shown in this video. So 2 separate mains. One for each "zone". hope that helps!