Posted: 4/8/2007 5:23:51 AM EDT
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I want to install some flourescent lighting in my safe. Any recommendations/pics from y'all that have lights installed? I seem to remember this topic coming up, and someone had a pretty cool set up with a switch on the inside that'd turn the lights on when the door was opened. It's a little safe I've got, a Remington branded Liberty, the "little" (smallest one they make that about killed me getting the fucker in place yesterday  ) 17 cubic foot Centurion. I saw on the website that Liberty has a light kit, but it's like $235; I think I can do better myself.
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I found a small florescent light at home depot that would fit in my safe, bolted it under one shelf and fed the wire out through the fireproof gromet (along with the Goldenrod wire) to the electrical outlet I'd put there. One outlet is hot 24x7 (Goldenrod), while the other (safe light) is only hot when I turn the lights on in the closet the safe is in. I figured I needed the closet lights to be on to read the dial, so no sense rigging up a switch on the safe's door.  Kharn |
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I used the "Rope" lighting but put a power strip with 5 available outlets inside the safe and manually "turn on" the lights with the power strip when I open the safe instead of an "auto on" plunger switch on the door. Takes an extra 1/4 second to manually turn on and off when opening the door. Total cost was about $12. I've also heard that the rope lights consume so little electricity and generate almost no heat that they are safe to leave on all the time, but I'm not that lazy. |