FYI Feit lights back at Costco
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anyone know best way to install these in a set for a clean look that then i can use a wall switch?
I'd like to get 4 of these and install a pair on each side of my 2 car garage.
I'd like to get 4 of these and install a pair on each side of my 2 car garage.
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As previously-mentioned in other threads about the FEIT/Costco-sold LED lights, just use screws and fender washers to penetrate the sheet metal of the luminaire and screw directly into your ceiling rafter. Don't bother to use those 'keyhole' stampings provided. Two fender washer/screw mountings should be enough in any application.
absoluteczech wrote:
" anyone know best way to install these in a set for a clean look that then i can use a wall switch?
I'd like to get 4 of these and install a pair on each side of my 2 car garage.
I suggest four on a side if you are planning to do any kind of work in the garage. Since they are only rated to have four FEIT/Costco luminaires connected in-series, you should plan on using a splitter of some-sort for your connection. You could use a three-way tap into the edison-base to 120 V single parallel plug, and connect the end plug from each four-luminaire run into the three-way tap, but a more-elegant way of avoiding a hard-wire connection (which would probably be best) at the old bulb fixture box would be to replace the edison-base screw-in with a single duplex outlet, providing you with a better way to connect the the 120 V plugs. Don't be tempted to use a "back-stab" attachment when wiring a duplex outlet, use the screw connectors! There are many documented cases where the "back-stab" attachment causes overheating and even fires have been seen when using that method.
I bet you will be much-happier with the four fixtures in each bay compared to only two, and the cost is almost negligible. If you're only using the ceiling lights to get out of the vehicle and into the house, you don't need anything other than a single ceiling bulb anyway, but I suspect you will be working in there, in some-capacity, at sometime.
absoluteczech wrote:
" anyone know best way to install these in a set for a clean look that then i can use a wall switch?
I'd like to get 4 of these and install a pair on each side of my 2 car garage.
I suggest four on a side if you are planning to do any kind of work in the garage. Since they are only rated to have four FEIT/Costco luminaires connected in-series, you should plan on using a splitter of some-sort for your connection. You could use a three-way tap into the edison-base to 120 V single parallel plug, and connect the end plug from each four-luminaire run into the three-way tap, but a more-elegant way of avoiding a hard-wire connection (which would probably be best) at the old bulb fixture box would be to replace the edison-base screw-in with a single duplex outlet, providing you with a better way to connect the the 120 V plugs. Don't be tempted to use a "back-stab" attachment when wiring a duplex outlet, use the screw connectors! There are many documented cases where the "back-stab" attachment causes overheating and even fires have been seen when using that method.
I bet you will be much-happier with the four fixtures in each bay compared to only two, and the cost is almost negligible. If you're only using the ceiling lights to get out of the vehicle and into the house, you don't need anything other than a single ceiling bulb anyway, but I suspect you will be working in there, in some-capacity, at sometime.
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