Does anyone else have home emergency lights? For me when the power goes out at night it becomes pitch black. It is so dark you can't even walk or find your way to the kitchen to get flash lights and candles. That movie has been lived through more than once during thunderstorms and when a car hits a pole- typically you know your in for an extended outage when the recloser trips right back out on its first reclose attempt.
To remedy this I typically buy the cheapest yet UL and NFPA 101 listed name brand emergency light. 18 AWG copper listed lamp cord bought separate, wire nuts included with fixture, electrical tape and you've got a safe, reliable emergency light source that lets you find your way to candles and flashlights.
Typically these are hardwired to 120 or 277 volts AC but I don't want to go through the trouble of adding, drilling, and fishing new electrical boxes and then having to climb ladders to test and replace these lights every X number of years. The cord makes it portable and the unit can be placed anywhere.
To anyone who hasn't done this I highly recommend you do it.
$27 commercial EM light, sometimes on sale for $20:

120 volt room circuit on:

120 volt room circuit turned off at breaker panel:

Unboxed emergency light comes with mounting screws and wire nuts. Rechargeable battery included inside. Cord sold separately:

Internals, cord hooked to unit red and white wires. Battery leads shipped disconnected, battery molex connected on wire up. I normally don't put electrical tape around wire nuts, however given loose cord scheme I don't want to run the risk of the wire nuts ever popping off and shorting out on battery operated circuitry while the unit sits on or is surrounded by flammable things.

To remedy this I typically buy the cheapest yet UL and NFPA 101 listed name brand emergency light. 18 AWG copper listed lamp cord bought separate, wire nuts included with fixture, electrical tape and you've got a safe, reliable emergency light source that lets you find your way to candles and flashlights.
Typically these are hardwired to 120 or 277 volts AC but I don't want to go through the trouble of adding, drilling, and fishing new electrical boxes and then having to climb ladders to test and replace these lights every X number of years. The cord makes it portable and the unit can be placed anywhere.
To anyone who hasn't done this I highly recommend you do it.
$27 commercial EM light, sometimes on sale for $20:

120 volt room circuit on:

120 volt room circuit turned off at breaker panel:

Unboxed emergency light comes with mounting screws and wire nuts. Rechargeable battery included inside. Cord sold separately:

Internals, cord hooked to unit red and white wires. Battery leads shipped disconnected, battery molex connected on wire up. I normally don't put electrical tape around wire nuts, however given loose cord scheme I don't want to run the risk of the wire nuts ever popping off and shorting out on battery operated circuitry while the unit sits on or is surrounded by flammable things.

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