New poster here, and what a plethora of material available here - I'm hoping to learn a good deal.
Ok, I recently hung an LED LCD TV on a wall, which would normally require a wired 120v power recepticle behind the TV. Since I wanted to protect against surges and outages, I wired up a "pass-through" recepticle behind the TV that simply connected wire-to-wire with another recepticle nearer to the floor. I then powered the outlets by creating a male-to-male adapter that ran from the floor mounted UPS (powered by a regular outlet on the floor) to the first pass-through recepticle, which then powered the outlet behind the TV. Now this works just fine, though is clearly non-standard and I felt like it was something that I'd be embarrassed to show an electrician, so I thought I'd ask the group for their feedback. The alternative methods that I've seen involved cutting a hole in the wall and passing cables through to below, but I felt this to be uneloquent as well. Any comments/suggestions would be welcome!
Ok, I recently hung an LED LCD TV on a wall, which would normally require a wired 120v power recepticle behind the TV. Since I wanted to protect against surges and outages, I wired up a "pass-through" recepticle behind the TV that simply connected wire-to-wire with another recepticle nearer to the floor. I then powered the outlets by creating a male-to-male adapter that ran from the floor mounted UPS (powered by a regular outlet on the floor) to the first pass-through recepticle, which then powered the outlet behind the TV. Now this works just fine, though is clearly non-standard and I felt like it was something that I'd be embarrassed to show an electrician, so I thought I'd ask the group for their feedback. The alternative methods that I've seen involved cutting a hole in the wall and passing cables through to below, but I felt this to be uneloquent as well. Any comments/suggestions would be welcome!