Bathroom vanity lights can be old fashioned and obtrusive. Often they increase the heat in the bathroom and direct the light away from where you need it most. Replacing the bathroom vanity light with track lighting gives you more flexibility with your lighting, allows you to increase the amount of fixtures over your vanity and change the direction of the lights. The track also gives you the ability to change the appearance of the fixture by simply changing the track lighting fixtures.
Instructions
1. Turn the circuit off that supplies electricity to the bathroom vanity light. Hold a noncontact voltage tester against the light sockets on the vanity light and against the light switch on the wall. If you did not turn off the correct breaker, your tester will beep and flash.
2. Remove the light cover and light bulbs from the bathroom vanity light if applicable. Look for one or two cap nuts on the base of the vanity light. Turn the cap nuts counterclockwise to remove them and release the vanity light from the junction box in the wall.
3. Pull the vanity light from the wall to access the wiring inside the junction box. Untwist the wire connectors from the ends of the black and two white wire sets. Pull the sets of wires apart.
4. Loosen the green screw on the vanity light mounting strap connected to the junction box. Unwrap the copper wires from around the strap screw. This releases the bathroom vanity light fixture. Remove the screws holding the strap to the junction box.
5. Thread the green, white and black wire from the tracking lighting twist-lock connector through the track lighting mounting plate. Match the white wire from the twist-lock connector to the white wire from the junction box. Match the black wire from the twist-lock connector to the black wire from the junction box. Match the green the twist-lock connector to the care copper wire from the junction box. Twist orange wire connectors over the end of each wire set.
6. Attach the track lighting mounting plate to the junction box with the provided mounting screws.
7. Position the track on the bathroom wall. Check the position of the track with a torpedo level. Once the level's bubble floats between the two vertical lines etched on the tube and you become satisfied with the position of the track, mark the track mounting holes on the wall.
8. Attach a Phillips screwdriver bit to a cordless screwdriver. Place the end of the bit into the round opening on the end of a zinc-plated self-tapping hollow wall anchor. Use the cordless screwdriver to drive the anchor through the wallboard at the track lighting mounting holes.
9. Thread the track through the wires between the twist-lock connector and the track lighting mounting plate. Secure the track to the wall with the anchor screws.
10. Insert the copper tabs on the end of the twist-lock connector into the track. Twist the connector until it snaps into the track.
11. Cover the twist-lock connector, wires and junction box with the track light canopy. Attach the canopy to the track lighting mounting plate with the provided screws.
12. Insert the tabs on the ends of the track lighting fixture connector into the track. Twist the connector until the light fixture snaps in the track.
13. Pull the outside of the connector away from the track to slide the lighting fixture along the track until you become satisfied with the placement.
14. Install light bulbs into the track lighting fixture. Turn on the circuit to provide power to the track light.
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