As we emerge from COVID restrictions and I recover from a recent surgery, completion of my humble home darkroom can again become a high priority.
I'm expanding an existing, and underutilized, pantry to serve as my home darkroom. While the pantry currently has two switched can lights in the ceiling, there are no electrical outlets. A few feet away is a 220v outlet in my garage that was originally intended to allow using a welder. It is on it's own dedicated 200v circuit with breaker. My thought is to keep the existing switched can lights and feed all other electrical needs by converting the dedicated 220v circuit to 120v.
My questions are as follows;
1. Will normal 20 Amp 125-Volt Duplex GFCI outlets work for my enlarger and related darkroom uses?
2. Should I consider adding surge protection or a stabilizing power supply?
3. In the future, will changing my enlarger head from the Dichro 45S colorhead to a cold light LED source (i.e Heiland) create any issues that I should be planning for now?
To help with your answers, I've acquired and intend to install a wall-mounted Beseler 45V-XL with the Dichro 45S colorhead and GraLab 451 solid state digital timer. In addition to the enlarger arrangement, I'll have two or three old school GraLab 300 timers, a Jobo CPP2, Thomas Safelight, print inspection light, etc. I've attached a copy of my floor plan for reference.
Your wise counsel and suggestions are appreciated.
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