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Did a bit of rewiring to remove a bypass to an old light socket with exposed live pre-romex wiring. Probably left a few of my own no-nos for future home owners. Forgot to take pictures of the old wiring, but maybe thats for the best, it had been running a freezer for many years. You could just touch it at any time and zap yourself.
If this is on a 20 amp breaker, this is a massive fire hazard mixing different wire gauges
If this is on a 15 amp breaker, then you're fine
If you solved a shocking outlet then that's the most important & dangerous thing put to bed. Kudos & good job. Next time it doesn't have to be an outdoor box, a cheap handy box would have worked. Also if your circuit has yellow (20 amp) Romex then all of it should be 20 amp wire. I just had to fix this very thing in a remodel where I added a couple of outlets. Inspectors jump on stuff like this but you're home free...well until you sell
It’s a 15A breaker, I had yellow and didn’t want to go buy a spool of white for this little bit.
CFL ✊️
the lightbulb made me think of an animal. got to love pareidolia.
So why does the electric receptacle have two wires to it, are you feeding another receptacle or something from it?
It goes to a flourescent tube lamp and a lightswitch
I could not even understand the question you were asking until I did a quick web search…
TIL that the US doesn’t (often) use ring mains / ring circuits for domestic power point installations.
I didn’t know radial circuits were still a thing.
You must be in the UK?
Yeah in Canada and US the room size on most homes is large and we require a receptacle every 12 feet I think, so rather than a junction that spiders out to say 8 run receptacles that would require a lot of wire, we wire from receptacle to next one. So you are just doing 12 foot jumpers to each rather than say 30 foot individual from a ceiling junction down to each wall location.
There's probably pros and cons to each style.
My brain is cooked. I thought that first lightbulb pick was some homemade flashlight device before a lightbulb
This is not very dull.
Oh dear. Who's going to tell him?
You should.
Mixing 15A and 20A Romex?
Fine on a 15A circuit breaker.
I think he has been told.