I have a friend that owns a local restaurant. He's renting a building that is somewhere around 30 years old.
The building currently has a sign with lights above the signage on both sides, shining down to light up the sign. And there's a switch at the bottom of the pole that they can use to manually turn it on or off.
We recently discussed putting landscape lights around the parking lot, in part to prevent people from hitting the risers, but there's nowhere to plug in a low voltage transformer on the outside perimeter of the parking lot without having to run wire across the parking lot. But then I thought... why not replace the switch with a GFCI receptacle and plug in the transformer there?
But if we did that then the sign wouldn't light up. So the next solution would be... maybe replace the lights with low voltage spot lights that are connected to that same transformer. My spot lights at home have 50W LEDs that are MUCH brighter than what they have now!
What do you guys and gals think, good or bad idea?
If it's an OK idea, can I use the existing wire from the switch to the lights to connect to the transformer, or do I really need to replace it with low voltage landscape wire?
The building currently has a sign with lights above the signage on both sides, shining down to light up the sign. And there's a switch at the bottom of the pole that they can use to manually turn it on or off.
We recently discussed putting landscape lights around the parking lot, in part to prevent people from hitting the risers, but there's nowhere to plug in a low voltage transformer on the outside perimeter of the parking lot without having to run wire across the parking lot. But then I thought... why not replace the switch with a GFCI receptacle and plug in the transformer there?
But if we did that then the sign wouldn't light up. So the next solution would be... maybe replace the lights with low voltage spot lights that are connected to that same transformer. My spot lights at home have 50W LEDs that are MUCH brighter than what they have now!
What do you guys and gals think, good or bad idea?
If it's an OK idea, can I use the existing wire from the switch to the lights to connect to the transformer, or do I really need to replace it with low voltage landscape wire?