I hate to be a little bitch here, but if you don’t understand the basics of wiring a light bulb, maybe you shouldn’t be messing around with it.
There are just a few things about what you are trying to do here. 1) black wire is the hot lead. 2) white wire is the neutral. 3) green is the ground. On a wall plug, the gold screw is for the black…always remember black/gold as in “blackgold Texas tea”. The silver screw is for the white. green is obvious.
Now with that learned, as long as your circut isn’t already overloaded: You can tell by adding up all your potential amp draw on that certain circut. Light bulbs draw a certain amount of watts that can be converted into amps…add them all up. Find out if your circut is a 15 or 20 amp, find the potential load / overload. Now you can add a switch leg to power up those lights.
If you can add to the circut, run the wires fron an existing wall socket, to a wall switch,and out to some junction boxes at the appropriate level and wire those lights. Peice of cake. Make sure all wiring is done within the junction box.
Make sure that if you run additional wire on the circut, make sure you use the same gauge wire as the rest of the circut. Either the yellow or white romex stuff…12 or 14 gauge, depends on circut amps, 15 or 20.
Oh yeah, make sure you flip the circut before you start working, or you might get this little zap feeling if you touch metal to any of the 3 wires.
If none of this makes a little bit off sense to you, call an electrician.
disclamier: Resinhead is not a certified electrician, your mileage may vary from recommendations, resinhead is not held responsible in the case of electricution, dismemberment, or physical deformity from the said instructions.
Or just make little extension cords and plug them into the wall and be done with it. Thats what i’d do.
