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Ok... this on I need just a little help with.
I have a 4' green fishing light that attached to a car battery via alligator clips. It runs on 12 volts.. can anyone point me somewhere where I can put an adaptor on that thing so that I can plug it into a husehold wall socket.
I'ts going to make a wicked light for the tank...

Thanks in advance

Try going to radio shack or other electronics store and buy an ac to dc adapter. They run about $20 for variable power ones. Or, if you have an old adapter laying around (most people do) you can just try using it. All you gotta do is make sure the output is appropriate for your light. Too little power, and the light won't come on, or will be dim. Too much, and the light could blow out. all you need to do is clip the end of the adapter, figure out which wire's positive, and which one's negative, and hook them up to your light. It's pretty easy to do, just knowing what you're doing is the issue. In case you don't know what an adapter is, I'm talking about one of those big black blocks that you plug into the outlet to power your phone, laptop, answering machine, printer, Nintendo, etc...

-Rob

I purchased a battery charger .. my hunter / contractor friend just said to daisy chain them and there were be no problem .. I hope.. just the exposed alligator clips and the cats .. but I can hide that under a box or in a cabinet. Haven't tested it out yet.. but the light works great!

I tried a direct connection between the battery charger at 2 amps and it didn't take, tried 12 amps .. same result... I can go to 150 amps but the charger doesn't recognise a direct link to the light.. so I will try to daisy chain it later

Well, if the battery charger puts out the right power to do the job, then ok I guess. If you want to make it more permanent, you could cut off the alligator connections and just connect the wires together with a connector and wrap it all in electric tape or heat shrink tubing... soldering the connection is a good idea, but not really necessary.

-Rob