c/dull_mens_club · by Elting@piefed.social · 53d

Did a little rewiring in the basement

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.

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Denvil@piefed.world · 15 pts · 53d

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

Bell@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 53d (1 reply)

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

Elting@piefed.social · 10 pts · 52d

It’s a 15A breaker, I had yellow and didn’t want to go buy a spool of white for this little bit.

Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 53d

BCsven@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 53d (3 replies)

So why does the electric receptacle have two wires to it, are you feeding another receptacle or something from it?

Elting@piefed.social · 4 pts · 53d

It goes to a flourescent tube lamp and a lightswitch

Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 52d (1 reply)

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.

BCsven@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 52d

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.

Fizz@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 52d

My brain is cooked. I thought that first lightbulb pick was some homemade flashlight device before a lightbulb

Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 53d (5 replies)

Oh dear. Who's going to tell him?

nocturne@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 53d

You should.

duckythescientist@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 53d (2 replies)

Mixing 15A and 20A Romex?

Kenny2999@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 53d