I have a block heater cord that I want to plug into an outlet at the side of my house. It would run along the side and then I would have a string of lights and an inflatable plugged into it for the front of the house.
There will also still be exposed outlets on the power strip that have nothing plugged into them, and I don’t want to leave it completely open to the elements, so I was going to wrap the power strip in electrical tape once everything was plugged into it to seal it. Safe?
DickweedMcGee t1_ixnwj7x wrote
No. For <$10 you can buy an outdoor, 3-way power cord or a 3 way Outdoor Power Stake.
You'll waste a roll of electrical tape and moisture will still get into that Indoor power strip potentially ruining the power strip , tripping your breaker and possibly messing up anything else on that circuit.
For $10, I wouldn't take that chance but thats just me.....