@John H posted:Tom, I would suggest you start your own thread. If you are thinking 120v, that's another ball game.
Yikes, and I thought this thread was about lighting Dept 56 buildings better. I am not married to any voltage system, I’m looking for an alternative to the individual wires and plugs the run to each building. It is a nightmare when you are dealing with 60 buildings on a temporary Xmas layout.
What I can’t tell from the pictures is if 18V bulbs produce the same ‘glow’ as the standard C7. I believe LEDs don’t, so right off we are dealing with incandescent bulbs.
Do I have that part right?
Carey’s method got me thinking about running a lighter gauge (or at least more flexible) buss with many female plugs under the snow. Each building would have its own light socket with perhaps about 18” of wire and a matching male plug. Sounds easy to me, but I don’t know anything about mini connectors or sizing wire. I just want to get rid of 60 bulky plugs and multiple octopus plugs and relatively heavy zip wire.
Didn’t mean to intrude,
Tom Stoltz
in Maine
