Power is ready

Between Monday and today, my father-in-law, Leonard helped me acquire materials and install the RV outlet which will supply power to the Spider box. It took two trips to Home Depot, but we got what we needed. We routed the power out of my electric service panel inside conduit through the storage room on the East end of the house to the carport. The total length is 24 feet. It would have been nice if the price of copper was lower, but I'm glad this part of the project is complete.

Of course I hooked up the Spider box! This was the first time I have applied power to it, and I'm happy to say that it is fully functional and works correctly. Considering what all this is for, I decided to initiate the system with a string of Christmas lights to test each of the Spider box's circuits.

Also this week, I received three rolls of SPT2 wire and vampire plugs & receptacles from ChristmasLightShow.com for making my own custom length extension cord "bundles" for multi-channel items.