What You'll Need:

What You'll Do:

Your task is to wire a single pole circuit within one
hour of receiving these instructions. You'll then use
your wired circuit to turn on a light.
Your future will be much brighter upon completion of

- a wood wiring platform with one switch

- basic wiring tools
- one mounted light box
- one 36 inch pre-stripped wire with a wall outlet plug
- one 24 inch 12-2 pre-stripped wire (will be explained)

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Place the switch box so it is on
your right side and the light box
is on your left side.

Hold the 36 inch wire.

Locate the round clamp

connectors on the switch box.

Thread the 36 inch wire right to

left through the round clamp
connectors.
a. Assure all stripped wire (wire that
is divided into three separate wires)
is in the box.

Thread the 12-2 wire through

the switch box clamp connectors
and the light box clamp
connectors.

Locate your flat blade

screwdriver.

Tighten the screws on the clamp

connectors.

At the switch box, adjoin the 2

white wires with the yellow wire
nut.

a. This keeps the wires from pulling

out of the boxes.

a. To do this, hold the wires side by

side.

a. Assure stripped wire is inside each

box.

b. Then, twist the nut clockwise until

the wires begin to twist around one
another.

c. Tighten until nut is firmly secure.

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Adjoin the 2 bare ground

wires with the green wire nut.

For all remaining wires, you will

need to end a J at the end to
connect to the appropriate
terminals.

Repeat the J hooking for

these remaining wires:

Locate the following three

screws on the light box: Two
gold screws and one green
screw.

a. Keep the wires side by side.

a. Two black wires at the switch box

a. The J should e tight e ough to
stay around the screw.

b. Slide the green wire nut over the

longer wire, allowing it to pass
through the top of the nut.

b. Two bare wires at the light box

b. Using the needle nose plyers,
pinch the bare end of each wire and
e d it to ake the J shape.

c. Tighten the nut the same as you

did in Step 8c.

c. One white wire at the light box

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Inside the light switch box,

hook the bare wire around
the green screw.

Hook one black wire on a gold

s rew and pin h the J hook
closed.

With the flat blade

screwdriver turn each of the
screws until they are secure
against the wire looped
around them.

Locate the light switch. There

are oval-shaped holes on the
top and bottom of the switch.

a. Pinch the hook closed with the needle

nose plyers. This will keep it from falling
off the screw terminal.

a. Repeat this for the other black wire.

a. Locate the two screws passing through
these holes. These screws are mounting
screws and will secure the switch to the
box.

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Gently fold all the wires into

the box.

Use the screw driver to

secure the mounting screws
into the box.

Now locate the terminal

screws on the light box.

You will J-hook ea h of the

following wires to their
respective screws, the same
as you did on the switch box:

a. Tuck them in so that the

mounting screws align into the
screw holes on the box.

a. As in step 12, there are two gold

screws and one green screw.

a. J-hook the white wire to the

white screw

. J-hook the la k wire to the

gold screw

. J-hook the are wire to the

green screw

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Secure all three screws with

the screw driver.

Locate two key-shaped screw

holes near the outside edge
of the light box.

Fold all of the wires gently

into the box.

Put the panel with the light

switch on it on top of the light
box.

a. Allow the mounting screws to pass

through the keyhole slots.

a. Make sure that screw holes on the

panel and box line up.

a. Tuck them in so that the mounting

screws align into the screw holes on
the box.

a. Align these with the screws on the

light box.

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Using the screw driver tighten

these screws against the light
base.

Install the lightbulb in the light

box.

Plug the 36 inch wire into the

wall.

Turn on the light switch and

shed a little light on your
success!

a. To install, turn the lightbulb

clockwise until it is secure.