Brandon's Blog

12/1/2014

Lights Out

I bought a plug-in staked spotlight for our new wreath and was unable to hook it up because it had a three-pronged cable and my light cord is not grounded.  What gets me is it’s a metal-housed light that stakes into the ground.  Tempted to just connect the ground prong to the housing of the light.

Looks like a lot of the three- to two-prong adapters have a little metal ring that you can connect to ground.  I’ll probably solder a wire to that and to another little metal stake on the other side and off we go.  Safe!