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Will this work? Connecting mailbox illumination to landscape lights.
My mailbox has an outer shell with our address ("TWO") cut through it. There's room behind the cutout for a little LED light. I have low-voltage landscape lighting installed (by someone else), with the nearest light about 20 feet away from the mailbox. The design of the mailbox post (a boxed in post) leaves room to run a buried cable up the inside of the post to the mailbox. Could I use something like this (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09JVWWHP4/?coliid=I3L85LJZM2YLP9&colid=37GEGMZ2Y69KF&psc=1) to tap into the power cable near the existing light and run cable (like this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y422GDB/?coliid=I2C1M9JGGYHGEE&colid=37GEGMZ2Y69KF&th=1) to power a automotive LED (like this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ENC23DC/?coliid=I28L63QLGR4SNH&colid=37GEGMZ2Y69KF&th=1) that mounts behind the cutout letters? If the general idea seems OK, I'd appreciate any suggestions for products, particularly for the t-connector. The ones I have found anticipate connecting a power cable to a light, so one side of the connector is designed for smaller wires. The one I've found will connect to 16 AWG, and I found 16 AWG power cable, but it seems like the usual direct bury cables for this application are 12 or 14. I'm thinking 16 would be OK to handle two little LEDs, but what do I know. Be gentle, I'm out at the extremes of my knowledge base here, or, more likely, beyond. submitted by /u/trocklin [link] [comments]
My mailbox has an outer shell with our address ("TWO") cut through it. There's room behind the cutout for a little LED light.
I have low-voltage landscape lighting installed (by someone else), with the nearest light about 20 feet away from the mailbox. The design of the mailbox post (a boxed in post) leaves room to run a buried cable up the inside of the post to the mailbox.
Could I use something like this (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09JVWWHP4/?coliid=I3L85LJZM2YLP9&colid=37GEGMZ2Y69KF&psc=1) to tap into the power cable near the existing light and run cable (like this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y422GDB/?coliid=I2C1M9JGGYHGEE&colid=37GEGMZ2Y69KF&th=1) to power a automotive LED (like this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ENC23DC/?coliid=I28L63QLGR4SNH&colid=37GEGMZ2Y69KF&th=1) that mounts behind the cutout letters?
If the general idea seems OK, I'd appreciate any suggestions for products, particularly for the t-connector. The ones I have found anticipate connecting a power cable to a light, so one side of the connector is designed for smaller wires. The one I've found will connect to 16 AWG, and I found 16 AWG power cable, but it seems like the usual direct bury cables for this application are 12 or 14. I'm thinking 16 would be OK to handle two little LEDs, but what do I know.
Be gentle, I'm out at the extremes of my knowledge base here, or, more likely, beyond.
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