Linda's Christmas Present Part 4

I have decided to use the Utilitech LED Tape Light (also sold under the name of Good Earth Lighting) to light Linda's new cabinet. However, the tape lights come with a two inch connecting wire and I need a two foot connecting wire.

Disclaimer: do not do electrical work of you are not comfortable with it. Always use a professional. This blog neither proves not denies that a professional electrician did this work.

The first thing I did was trim off the paper tag.

The next step was to cut the cable in half.

Then separate the two halves of the wire.

Strip back the rubber coating by quarter of an inch.

The wire in the connector is 22 gauge. While 22 wire is the best, you can use anywhere from 18 to 22 gauge wire to make your extension. I couldn't find any 22 gauge wire so I bought 20 gauge. It would be best to get stranded wire to get a better bond with the adapter's wire. Unfortunately, I could only find solid wire, which is fine, just not ideal.

I cut the length I needs for the extension and stripped the wire.

I then paired the wires so that the adapter wire with the black line tied into the red colored cable, and the adapter wire without the black line tied into the white cable.

Next, secure the connection with solder.

It would be good to complete the connection with some shrink wrap. I didn't have any do I used electrical tape. I wrapped the red wire, then the white wire, then wired them together. The goal is to make sure the metal parts of the red wire do not touch the white wire or else it will cause a short.

Do the same with the other end of the cable. Make sure the red wire connects to the adapt we'd wire with the black wire. When finished, plug the cable into the LED tape light to see if it works.