Folks, I’m brand new here so go easy–I’ve got plenty of questions.

I want to power a 10 X 10 tent canopy at music festivals so we can jam at night with instruments. Power would come from motorhome 12V DC deep cycle batteries. I have ideas of what I want to do but want to know the best way to go about it.

Canopy would be @30 ft from MH. I want to run a direct line from the battery to the canopy, go thru a dimmer, from the dimmer splitting the line to 2 lines, one to each LED strip light. Each LED strip is 24 Watts and they would be 5′ apart. I would run them for 3-5 hours a night. I would like some sort of quick connect/disconnect prior to the dimmer and one after the dimmer. The one after the dimmer would split the line from one to two, one to each light, if they make such a thing. I would also like to make up two additional lines with quick connect/disconnects, each line 10′, that I could add in the event the canopy ends up further away from the MH than 30′.

I have a roll of 12 awg and 18 awg speaker wire, the LED strip lights, the dimmer, and alligator clips to attach to the battery terminals.

I would like to know what the best way to quick connect/disconnect and where to find these parts? Also, does it sound like I’m on the right track on what I want to do?

Thanks for any help–joe