Soo many cords...

[BabyFishMouth]

Ok quick question, and sorry if this has been asked before. But I just want to make sure I'm not going to burn my apartment down.

Attached is a couple of pics of the lighting board I built for my new grow cab. The problem is that so far this leaves me with 8 cords coming off the back of this thing... it's a little much. I know I can splice the cords all together so that i have fewer plugs I just want to know how many i can safely splice together.

Thanks in advance for any help!!!

 

[h20grow]

Actually, you should never splice chord together. Most electronic devices have there own currency levels and the chords are made to these specs

 

[abudsmoker]

they all plug in the same outlet LOL. LED i will have to keep my eyes on the led progress i have been less than impressed with what i have seen to date but advances are happening all the time

 

[pandabear]

yes no splicing if anything get yourself a nice extension cord/power strip and plug all you plugs in there then you will only have to plug one plug up to the wall.

 

[LoudBlunts]

Amazon.com: Portable Power Box w/GFCI - 30 Amp, 125/250 Volt: Home Improvement

bargain shop for one of those!!!!

 

[jmac]

You can splice.Just be carefull i would leave the leds w/there original plugs but splice the cfls together like 3 cfls per plug, use a decent size plug not one from an alarm clock but one from a extension cord would handel it and be sure to use the proper wire nuts .white wire to white wire and blk to blk.and again be careful if u never done ne thing like this then dont do it.good luck

 

[infamouse21]

ive seen someone use LED lights for a clone experiment & it worked great they were also a twist in light that ran off 110. they sais they were special LED lights but i am figuring they were just reg LED's. due any of u know if they were diff.

i ask because i have a hookup on blue & red led strips. bright as hell 2

 

[BabyFishMouth]

You can splice.Just be carefull i would leave the leds w/there original plugs but splice the cfls together like 3 cfls per plug, use a decent size plug not one from an alarm clock but one from a extension cord would handel it and be sure to use the proper wire nuts .white wire to white wire and blk to blk.and again be careful if u never done ne thing like this then dont do it.good luck

Thanks, I've done some electrical work before so I'm not that scared of it just wanted to check. My solution so far was to get a heavy duty surge protector with a 15' cord (JR.com: Belkin 10-Outlet Surge Protector in Surge Protection and UPS Backup Power:)
that is attached to the back of my cab.

I went ahead and spliced the chords using some heavy duty 15 amp plugs that i bought at home depot. I have all of the chords clamped into the back of the plug no wire nuts nesecary. Right now I have it set up with three cfls and an LED panel per chord. The chords don't get hot at all so i think i'm ok but if you guys think this is unwise i can change it. Basically these chords are plugged into a smaller power strip which is plugged into a timer. I'm mainly trying to avoid running three or four different timers just for the lights. I'll post some pics when i get home later...

 

[jmac]

sounds like a job well done. did the orig. led have a power supply type cord (big black box)? The power strip to the timer is allright as long as u check the timers amp rating to everythingyou have pluged into the strip. sound good (watts = volts x amps),
j mac

 

[BabyFishMouth]

sounds like a job well done. did the orig. led have a power supply type cord (big black box)? The power strip to the timer is allright as long as u check the timers amp rating to everythingyou have pluged into the strip. sound good (watts = volts x amps),
j mac

Thanks, the LED's didn't have power supplys they just had a standard two prong cord.

I think I'm ok on the amp rating, the timer is rated 1100W Max

Total I have 180 watts plugged into it (4 cfls @ 20 watts, 2 LED @ 23 watts, 2 cfl @ 27 watts)

 

[fat sam]

your good man dont trip, multiple cords are only a concern when they overload a circuit