Gun Safes Interior Lighting Systems

Gun Safes Interior Lighting Systems

Recommendation: Fluorescent lamp supplemented by LED string or rope lighting.

Interior illumination in a safe is not a luxury, it’s a practical necessity.

If you’ve ever prowled around in a dark safe in a dimly-lit garage, you’ll agree. Thankfully, there are very simple, inexpensive ways to light up a safe. A combination of an overhead fluorescent bulb and small LED lamps on the shelves and sidewalls will provide all the illumination you could want.

Using the same 120v power cord servicing your dehumidifier, you can attach a low-wattage bulb or fluorescent tube near the top of the safe. The “long-life” fluorescent bulbs will run continuously for months with very low power drain. It’s easy to rig a contact switch so the light turns on when the door opens, as with a refrigerator. However, if you leave the light running, it will act like a second GoldenRod, warming the safe and helping it to remain moisture-free.

On the shelves and sidewalls, the best system we’ve seen employs inexpensive strings of LED mini-lights.  A 70-light LED string draws just 3.6 watts of power. Many safe dealers also sell “Rope Lighting” kits, which have LEDs inside a flexible tube. These kits provide good illumination but rope lighting is more expensive than LED string lighting and is more difficult to bend around corners or drape inside shelving units.

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