Direct wire under cabinet lighting install

Trace around the new box with a pencil to mark the wall. Cut along the marks with a utility knife to remove the small section of drywall. Pry the box in the wall off of the stud with a pry bar and remove it. Measure the distance from the drilled hole to the electrical box hole and add 24 inches to this measurement.

Push one end of the cable through the drilled hole so that it emerges through the hole for the electrical box. Attach the strip for the light fixture in the desired location by removing the cover and inserting the screws included with the light fixture through the holes on the fixture and tightening them with a screwdriver.

Remove the knockout plug in the fixture by pushing it out with a screwdriver. Remove 6 inches of the plastic cover over the wire protruding from the hole drilled in the wall. Push the wire through the cable connector, and turn the screw on the connector clockwise with a screwdriver to hold the wire in place.

The connector must clamp down on the plastic cover, not the uncovered wires. Remove 6 inches of the plastic cover over the wire running to the light fixture.

Place the two-gang electrical box beside the hole in the wall. Push all wires through the holes in the back of the new electrical box. Push the box into the wall, and tighten the screws in the corners. Whether for permanent or temporary use, Lightkiwi Under Cabinet Premium Kit solution includes all the necessary supplies to allow you do either. You can use the provided mounting materials for long term use or a 3M double sided tape if the lighting is only to be used temporarily.

With the UL listed and industry recommended low voltage, 24VDC, it proves that Lightkiwi does what is necessary to ensure our product is the safest. Add drama to any space by using them as backlights. Really, the sky's the limit when it comes to finding uses for these energy efficient light sources.

Each individual inch Lightkiwi under cabinet panel has 42 bright LED lights and only uses 3 watts maximum energy. Simply put, it gives you a brighter space while using less electricity. We made it so that you won't need an engineering degree to install your new under cabinet lighting. Simply connect the power supply to a volt power outlet and connect the dimmer switch in between the power supply and the first LED light panel.

Depending on your backsplash, you may have to peel it away from where you're installing the lights. Then, you should cut a channel behind the backsplash using your drywall saw. The channel should stretch from under the switch box to right near the farthest light. Finally, use the drill to bore a hole through the studs so you can run the wire. On the bottom of each cabinet, use the drill again to make a hole for the wire for each light to come through.

This is where you might need the wire fish to run the wires down the wall from one fixture, through the channel, and to the next fixture. Beginning with the farthest fixture from the switch, run electrical wire from one fixture to another.

We recommend leaving about one foot of cord at each opening. At the farthest fixture, you'll have a foot of cord hanging out the end, and the fixture next to it will have two cords hanging out one entering and one exiting.

Do this for every light until you get to the one closest to the switch. This light needs one length of wire coming from the switch box and one leaving the light on its other side.

At the closest fixture to the switch, connect the wires with the wire nuts. You should connect the black fixture wire with one wire on the electrical wire in the wall with the plug on the end, and one wire heading to the next fixture.

Do the same for the white fixture wire. At the switch outlet, make sure the electricity isn't on and then remove the receptacle. Bind the white wire and the connecting strand of cord together with a wire nut. Screw the black wire on the outlet onto the switch's bottom terminal, and screw the black wire that goes out to the lights into the switch's top terminal. Cover the switch's terminals by wrapping it with your electrical tape.

Then screw the switch back into the box. Attach the switch cover. Finally, you can redo the drywall that you had to slice away for the wire channel, and reattach the backsplash.