Ronald Hoffer Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Suggestions on keeping my water out of my electrical connections. I have 8 controllers. Which I will have about 180 zip line extention cords with vampire plugs. All of my controllers are inside so I don't have to worry about them being in the weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Roberson Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Dave Hoffer wrote: Suggestions on keeping my water out of my electrical connections. I have 8 controllers. Which I will have about 180 zip line extention cords with vampire plugs. All of my controllers are inside so I don't have to worry about them being in the weather.Don't worry about 'keeping water out". Just make sure you don't do anything to trap the water in the connections.All most of us do is to make sure the connections are not laying on the ground. I have some small pieces of wood that I lay connections on that end up in a place where they would otherwise lay on the ground. Some people use some kind of lawn stakes to keep connections off the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-klb- Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Plastic stakes for C7 or C9 lights work really well...Some of it is just design.. All our arches have the electrical connections one segment up from the end, so that they don't reach the ground... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronald Hoffer Posted October 28, 2011 Author Share Posted October 28, 2011 Thanks. All of my art will be on top of my auto repair shop in Dallas. It has a very slightly slanted flat roof. Really dont have any standing water. All my connection to the art will be in the air on painted 2 by 4's. I will post some pictures when I fiqure out how to do it. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronald Hoffer Posted October 28, 2011 Author Share Posted October 28, 2011 Here's a picture of one side of my roof top on how I put some of my christmas display up. Attached files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-klb- Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 I don't think you will have any issues. One thing that I will note, is that if you have multiple strings on one frame, if possible, you want all the channels to be on one half of a controller.. Or at least as often as possible. You can actually have a GFCI fault between different strings on one frame that are on different GFCI, even though everything is fully isolated from ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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