Electrical Question About Light Switch Wiring

Question: I purchased a neon sign and want to hard wire it to a light switch. See arrows on the attached picture.
The light switch use to wire my pool table lights.

Electrical Question about: Light Switch Wiring

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Question: I purchased a neon sign and want to hard wire it to a light switch. See arrows on the attached picture.
The light switch used to wire my pool table lights. I had an electrician leave the wiring to the light switch for I wanted to purchase a neon sign. He wired a new switch for my table lights and left the live wire for my neon sign. The new neon sign has an AC Adapter (model AD 1280 – Input 120 VAC 60 Hz 14W and Output 12 VDC 800 mA)
How do I hard wire the neon sign to the light switch?

Dave’s Reply:
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One Response to “Electrical Question About Light Switch Wiring”

Darryl says:

January 13, 2011 at 5:53 am

I purchased a couple of energey efficiant electric heaters so I dont have to use the base board heaters that dont heat room and are not efficiant. is there a way ro hard wire these heaters to the exsisting wires for the base board heaters

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