Tape is very bad! A wire that pulls out will also have arcing problems and start a fire. If you broke it up and suddenly have 3 black wires, that turns into a real headache.Ĭompetent wire nuts = survives a pull-test without tape.
That way you are joining 1 wire to 1 wire, and there’s no confusion which is supply and which is lamp. So I would leave it just that way, don’t disturb the 3-wire splice, and break the 2-wire splice. That’s somewhat redundant, but very harmless (assuming the wire nuts are done competently). Moreso, you have a double pigtail, where the multiple wires join to a short branch wire, then that short wire joins to another short wire. This method links the switch to both outgoing hot wires in a code-approved manner. Switches and lamps don’t have dual screws, so you see a lot of use of pigtails to achieve the same effect. For example, where a wall switch needs to control two or more light fixtures fed by different cables leading from the switch box, a short black pigtail wire is used to connect the screw terminal on the switch to the hot wires leading to the light fixtures. Not recommending that, just making the point that the dual recep screws, and pigtails, are basically doing the same thing.) Climb the ladder, flick 3 wire nuts and I’m done. switch, then the black wire to the light fixture attaches to the second. Run a 14 -2 wire from the sub panel box to a device box for a plug receptacle, then to a light box (octagon box), and then to another light box (octagon box).
BLACK WIRE FROM ONE SWITCH TO ANOTHER HOW TO
Getting stranded wire onto receptacle screws is fidgety work, and it’s easier to do at a comfy workbench. How to Wire a Light Switch How do I connect the switch wires for one light and. (Tell you a secret: I don’t use them, I pigtail everything. They have extra screws just for the purpose of making that “onward cable” easier to hook up.
You see this all the time in receptacles. In effect, the outlets are “daisy chained”. then hot+neutral are continued onward to another point-of-use.
How does this work? Power (in a cable containing hot and neutral) are brought to a point-of-use (technically that’s called an “outlet” even if it’s a light/switch). One of them is twisted together with a black from the back of the switch box, our red from the back of the box that is by its self, we need to twist. There is 2 red wires coming from the switch. You probably know that your house has many more “points of use” (places electricity is used) than it has circuit breakers. Hes twisted both blacks both whites both coppers together But I think I see now.
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