Mind if I pick the more electrical peeps?
Just want a sanity check before I start messing with big crackle
I have these 3 work lights over my bench
Itās hard to tell in the picture, but each lamp has a switch on the 6ā cord, that is attached to the black beam next to it⦠each bulb is a 9w LED, each cord is a standard ungrounded 2 prong
so not a lot of juice but so you have all the info
The lamp cords werenāt long enough for me to route like I wanted, so I settled for running them behind the pegboard to the power strip on the bottom at a 45
I know Iām being picky, but I donāt like this setup and I wanna do it right, (I plan to back light the pegboard and the cords will draw unwanted attention)
Iād like to extend the cords so I can run them down the left side in a nice clean line
Hereās the sanity checks because I normally avoid ac if I can
- Is changing the cords from a 6ā cord to something like a 10-12ā cord egregiously wrong for any reason Iām overlooking⦠assuming proper connections and whatnot⦠shouldnāt be all that different than an extension cord in theory but right? (Iāll need to find a wire calculator at some point to make sure the gauge is fine for load⦠but I think itās probably close to fine maybe)
- I was planning to open up the switch unit on the cord and simply reconnect the new wire there, instead of doing a full cut and solder mid wire⦠making sure that sounds fine
- Depending on wire gauges, I was thinking it would be even cleaner, to have each lamp only have a enough wire to all meet at a single point, and then wire them together in parallel to the single wire that would run down the wall
Thinking, right and left most lamp would have a 3ā length and meet in the middle,
Or
Right most lamp has 6ā length
Middle lamp has 3ā length
Left lamp has couple inches, and then the single wire down the wall
Sorry to bug, lemme know what you think
edit
Internet calculator results
I calculated it out with a 60watt incandescent bulb worst case⦠just in case?
I have an 8ft power strip that only has 14awg, now Iām second guessing either itās cord or this math lol