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Here is a shot in the dark, but I am sure some of you use your battery tenders outside to keep power during the season while your bike is parked.
I am planning on installing an exterior electrical outlet box and run an extension cord to power the battery tender. This is a two fold method and need some experience/input from this community.
First part: Run an additional electrical line from an existing outlet in my basement, drill through the masonry (brick) to the exterior, and add a GCFI outlet and cover. Any hints? I plan to use 14-gauge wire and it seems pretty straight forward.
Second Part: I plan to run an extension cord under some landscape/mulch, under my walkway, peel up some grass and bury the run until it gets to the sidewalk. I live in a townhouse community, so we have assigned parking spaces in front of the house with a common sidewalk in between. I was going to run the extension cord in an expansion joint and cover it with that gray concrete crack sealer (expandable) and then have it pop out where my bike usually is parked (25-50' run).
I was going to run the extension cord to a small plastic (beefy Tupperware) container, connect the extension cord and tender box, and have the tender wire extend from the box to the bike (3-4 ft).
Think it will work? Any thing I am missing?
Thanks, Roadkill
I am planning on installing an exterior electrical outlet box and run an extension cord to power the battery tender. This is a two fold method and need some experience/input from this community.
First part: Run an additional electrical line from an existing outlet in my basement, drill through the masonry (brick) to the exterior, and add a GCFI outlet and cover. Any hints? I plan to use 14-gauge wire and it seems pretty straight forward.
Second Part: I plan to run an extension cord under some landscape/mulch, under my walkway, peel up some grass and bury the run until it gets to the sidewalk. I live in a townhouse community, so we have assigned parking spaces in front of the house with a common sidewalk in between. I was going to run the extension cord in an expansion joint and cover it with that gray concrete crack sealer (expandable) and then have it pop out where my bike usually is parked (25-50' run).
I was going to run the extension cord to a small plastic (beefy Tupperware) container, connect the extension cord and tender box, and have the tender wire extend from the box to the bike (3-4 ft).
Think it will work? Any thing I am missing?
Thanks, Roadkill