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How to wire low voltage lighting to transformer?

I have 14 LED lighting fixtures with 10" pigtails and the transformer (12vdc 2800 mA 36 W) which powers all of them is 5 ft away. Please advise if wire nuts or what is used to extend the wiring from the fixture to the transformer. I assume I need some kind of terminal blocks to connect the fixtures to the transfomer. How do I connect all the terninal blocks to the transformer? Thanks.

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  1. I would cut off all the terminal blocks and use some wire connectors to screw all the wires from the lighting fixtures together,then I'd screw a 5ft wire on the connector wire and connect it on the rest of the wires.The connectors I'm talking about can be found in this website: www.boltproducts.com/heyco/wire-protector-terminal-blocks
  2. there is no problem either way you connect the wires, the LED lights doesnt consume alot, and the voltage is low (12 Volts), so there is no problem whatsoever you will use on one condition, keep the wires isolated, to not let any short circuit occur.