Hanging lights between joists

[zakthor]

Ok got the boards and brackets installed. Nice and flat.

Next is Lots of holes to drill in joists and junction boxes.

My goal is to have it be just slightly brighter than the national ignition facility.

[70SATMan]

Whew! I'm tired just looking at all of those mounts. Great job!

[zakthor]

Well… I was smart and called inspector who said no to soow through joists, only conduit.

In my head I had a beautiful symphony of symmetric traces and only 4 junction boxes. Was going to quite beautiful…

Now I need a junction box in each bay… two columns of alternating junction boxes. So it greatly simplifies the routing. Pisser I need 8 more boxes which is $160.

All the bits have been trickling in. Bugger is I can’t start assembling , drilling, etc until I’ve got all the bits. Plan to do most assembly on the ground. The thwn is supposed to arrive tomorrow but it’s holiday cooking.

I did cut and strip the soow. Got a big pile now. Each fixture gets 2’ to junction box. Super glad the soow fits the cable glands.

Never cut liquidtight before so I’ll need to mess with it. I’ve heard the #1 thing is put the cone on while it’s on the ground.

[zakthor]

And real electricians showed up today to do the main work and… ive got a 200a panel fed by 2/0 aluminum to meter, and meter is fed with 1/0 aluminum. My service isnt sized for my new welder.

Got to figure it all out once theres a new year.

[zakthor]

Ok finally have all the bits, was waiting for my glands to arrive.

I wired all the fixtures today. Rented a right angle drill and made 11 holes in joists from top of ladder. Never had to deal with clearing plugs from hole saw… joists are old 2x fir. took for freakin ever, two clearings per hole.

Finally started wiring up the junction boxes, wrestling the liquidtight through the little holes.

I got 4 boxes done today before the light gave out, 8 to go. Got the liquidtight hanging in my stairway to keep it warm and maybe straight.

Electricians tomorrow to finish and ill finally have power to the light switches.

Realized at the last minute that since i have a jbox in each bay i can go with each circuit lighting a checkerboard. Should even out the light on single circuit.