Waterproof Cold White LED Rope Lights (?)
Need a sixteen footer (5 meters) for the kid's restaurant. 50 feet from the crashing Pacific Ocean. This would be for lighting not visual esthetics. A dimmable light would be nice but not essential. I...
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The sad part about the enramada (open air palm frond restaurant) is the humidity is always around 60% or higher and laden with salt. Sometimes I grumble that it rusts the palm fronds.
Whatever it turns out to be, it has to be easy to hang and easy to un-hang and store.
Low voltage is critical. With salt laden humidity, getting shocks is not hypothetical. Plug into a receptacle, wait six hours, grab the plastic plug to disconnect from 127vac and whammo. I won't even bother with the electro-galvanic nightmare descriptions.
Food under the glare of standard light bulbs looks awful - especially lobster and huachinango, a bright red whole snapper the specialty of the house. CFLs last about a week and go boink even GE brand - the salt eats them.
The kids have a -gallon- can of silicone electrolytic grease (food grade). Every receptacle has 12 gauge wires soldered directly to the tabs, then spray undercoating over that, then they were submerged in my jungle juice anti corrosion mix. Eight Hubbell 20-amp receptacles and four Hubbell motor grade toggle switches were installed. The place ought to be an electrical corrosion proving ground (grumble-grumble). All the appliances have zincs screwed to bare steel. Wish I could find more silver-dollar size zinc discs...
Whatever it turns out to be, it has to be easy to hang and easy to un-hang and store.
Low voltage is critical. With salt laden humidity, getting shocks is not hypothetical. Plug into a receptacle, wait six hours, grab the plastic plug to disconnect from 127vac and whammo. I won't even bother with the electro-galvanic nightmare descriptions.
Food under the glare of standard light bulbs looks awful - especially lobster and huachinango, a bright red whole snapper the specialty of the house. CFLs last about a week and go boink even GE brand - the salt eats them.
The kids have a -gallon- can of silicone electrolytic grease (food grade). Every receptacle has 12 gauge wires soldered directly to the tabs, then spray undercoating over that, then they were submerged in my jungle juice anti corrosion mix. Eight Hubbell 20-amp receptacles and four Hubbell motor grade toggle switches were installed. The place ought to be an electrical corrosion proving ground (grumble-grumble). All the appliances have zincs screwed to bare steel. Wish I could find more silver-dollar size zinc discs...
