The use of low voltage landscape lighting systems has become more and more well loved for commercial and residential use. For the past several years, more people are starting to appreciate the beauty that landscape lighting can add to their homes. When installing these systems, there are many things that you need to know and one of them is splicing low voltage landscape lighting.

Landscape lighting is one of the best ways to add accent and highlight your yard or garden. Landscape lighting systems usually come with wire that are already in a specific and pre-cut length. This might be convenient for some but for a lot of people, pre-cut lengths of electrical wire can greatly limit the placement of the lighting fixtures.

In order to extend the wires, you can easily splice additional wires and connect them to the main electrical wires. The whole thing might sound complicated and hard but don’t let it intimidate you into thinking that you can’t do it. The whole process is really quite simple once you get the gist of it.

Before starting the splicing project, make sure that you have everything you need including the low voltage lighting system, heat-shrink tubing, wire cutters or strippers, rosin-core solder, two-lead electrical wire, soldering iron and a blow-drier.

One you have everything, you can get started by stretching out the currently used lighting wires. For safety purposes and to avoid any nasty accident from occurring, make sure that you disconnect the wire from any power source. Once you have inspected everything, cut the wire in the middle using the wire cutters.

Remove the insulation from the two cut ends of the electrical wire. You can remove as much as about one inch of the insulation. After removing, you can pull the leads of each wire apart for about four to six inches.

After that, the next steps would require you to cut the circuit and then attach it to another wire so that it can reach the light in your preferred destination. Make sure that you observe all precautionary methods. You might be working on a low-voltage application but live electrical circuits can still be pretty harmful especially when not used safely.

Make sure that you use the heat-shrink tubing on each of the ends of the new piece wire since the tubing will help protect the splices so much more effectively than electrical tape. Since you are using the wires outdoors, it is imperative that you use heat shrink tubing instead of electrical tape.