Wiring the Electrical Requirements Begins

Wiring of the Electrical Requirements Begins

Date: 5.1.17
Location: Logan HS
Time: 3 hours
Goal: Purchase electrical parts and begin to assembly the control box.

Part of Saturday AM was spent at Menards looking for electrical boxes, connectors, wires, termination devices, wire protection...etc. We want to begin wiring the linear actuator into the system right after it is mounted so we purchased a large plastic electrical box ( we have used something similar before) to enclose all the components.

Right away we ran into problems with the thickness of the wall of the box as it was almost too thick for mounting a metal box where our 15 amp GFCI will be. We needed to modify the way we mounted the box slightly. The GFCI will be our circuit breaker instead of running a separate breaker for the system.

Someone donated a heavy gauge 3 wire electrical cord a while ago that we are repurposing for our power plug which will run into the GFCI.

Next step is to mount the 12 V power supply and then wire in a bus for our lights which also run on 12 V.

Raw materials before we begin connecting

15 amp plug attached to our wire.

15 Amp GFCI protected by a metal box and bolted to the plastic wall of our larger component box.