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Silly power wiring question to those that work with 110v
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.