When we had the gazebo roof reconstructed, I cut down the old LED
light strings as they were starting to fail and there wasn't really
room for them in the new configuration. Now I have a new lighting
arrangement.
The core of this is a set of LED floodlights, which run directly
off mains power and are IP66-rated. They come with very short mains
cables, so I set up a junction box to break out the mains power at a
convenient central point.
Hardly anyone sells compression glands over the counter any more,
which seems strange, especially places which do sell junction boxes.
But on-line ordering worked. You'd think retail shops were trying to
go out of business.
Rather than muck about with screw terminals, I followed a
recommendation for Wago terminal blocks, which are lever fit, and hold
the wires firmly.
The lamps are bolted to the support beams (and cable-tied too, just in
case), the junction box is in the middle, and the main supply is fed
down to the sockets.
And it all works!
Oh, did I mention it does multiple colours?
Hand-held infra-red remote control for now. If any reader knows of a
programmable IR emitter that I can drive off a USB port (as it might
be on a Raspberry Pi), I'm interested; even more so if it's something
like the
Iguanaworks
system that lets you put emitters right on the receivers. (But I don't
want to import that from the US if I don't have to.)
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