Flood light spliced on to a reg grounded cord?

Question

I would like to put a flood light on a timer and splice the wires to a 15amp ext. cord (the orange kind) is this possible? i know from past flood light installments they have 4 wires 3 you need and one you don't, would splicing work and be safe?

Answer 1

Using an extension cord as permanent wiring is not a good idea and it is against code

Answer 2

Yes, it will work just fine, and it will be relatively safe, although you will want to keep the splice dry. But lights of any kind normally require only two wires, three if the fixture is grounded. A fixture with two bulbs might have four wires and a ground - in that case the four wires to the bulbs should be connected in parallel and those two resulting wires spliced to the extension cord.

Answer 3

Mine works fine I'm running my hole garage off of one

I have it under the dirt and sometimes it gets wet

no joke.

I have the orange cord connected to a serge protector

and the serge protector plugged into a gfi plug (a plug with a breaker)

and the gfi plug has a breaker at the main box so I am safe.

but im sure if you run any cord through a breaker and a surge protector plug it will work just fine!