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kevhed72
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I am moving my HT to the basement and need to re-do the electrical for lights.
There is a circuit from the breaker box leading to a switch which controls the lights for the whole basement. QUESTION - can I simply add a junction box to this line before the existing switch, and splice off another run of wire to another switch to control another set of lights?
There is a circuit from the breaker box leading to a switch which controls the lights for the whole basement. QUESTION - can I simply add a junction box to this line before the existing switch, and splice off another run of wire to another switch to control another set of lights?
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Simple answer? Yes. It may be easier to run out of the existing box, unless there is a lot of slack in the cable to enable you to sever it and still have enough length inside the new box to make your connections.
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Simple answer? Yes. It may be easier to run out of the existing box, unless there is a lot of slack in the cable to enable you to sever it and still have enough length inside the new box to make your connections.
Good deal...thanks man. I was able to pull enough slack out of the existing run to make this work. -
You may want to check with local codes. In my locale we are limited to 12 items on a single circuit.
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