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Silly power wiring question to those that work with 110v

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DrumAnBass:

Another option - some X10 controls...? Bet you could find em on ebay for cheap... http://www.x10.com/promotions/ur73_ed_special_limit25_cat.html

iscariot:

I'd rather not hack a strip either.  My only concern is that I'll have to hack an existing homemade box I have which I am happy to do, but I will still have to hook up power toggles to it.

Actually, what is the voltage of a power transformer for one of those 12v florescent light?  THe light I have up there is one of those with a 12v transformer plugged into it.  I could probably just tap that off and run everything off that.

iscariot:

Actually it dawned on me I can leech off the power transformer for the marquee light because I think it is one of those 12v fluorescent lights.  How do I determine which wire is positive and which is negative?  I thin one has some white marks on it and the other is straight black.

Necro:

Well...for AC wiring in the US black is the hot wire...so maybe that's the positive one.   That would be my first guess :)

evitagen:

Get a voltmeter and check to be sure.

With low voltage crap sometimes black is the neutral.


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