New garden setup - control box? Help
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2021 6:36 am
Hi guys,
Have had a load of cheap lights of various types in my garden over the past year, generally look great at nice but all a bit piecemeal with some solar, some on 3032 batteries, some aa and some off 13a plugs.
I want to get some harder wearing outdoor rated fairy lights, festoons and a couple of uplights, but before I spend money on those I want to make sure they're controllable from a central point.
The lighting websites I've been looking at to get the products from don't seem to have "control box" hub kind of things. Apologies don't know the proper name. But just want a nice neat and tidy box I can run all the cables into and turn on/dim all the lights from rather than have 10 different plugs and extension cables lying around the place.
Could someone recommend me the right thing?
I've spoken to a lighting company and they're trying to charge me 3x the price for the same lights so trying to avoid that, although happy to get an electrician in to wire everything up correctly at the end.
Have had a load of cheap lights of various types in my garden over the past year, generally look great at nice but all a bit piecemeal with some solar, some on 3032 batteries, some aa and some off 13a plugs.
I want to get some harder wearing outdoor rated fairy lights, festoons and a couple of uplights, but before I spend money on those I want to make sure they're controllable from a central point.
The lighting websites I've been looking at to get the products from don't seem to have "control box" hub kind of things. Apologies don't know the proper name. But just want a nice neat and tidy box I can run all the cables into and turn on/dim all the lights from rather than have 10 different plugs and extension cables lying around the place.
Could someone recommend me the right thing?
I've spoken to a lighting company and they're trying to charge me 3x the price for the same lights so trying to avoid that, although happy to get an electrician in to wire everything up correctly at the end.