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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.

3 photos in a dingy basement. The first one shows a string pull light fixture wires with white and yellow romex cable. The second shows the next item in sequence, a similarly wired wall outlet. The third photo is of a shoddy looking lightbulb socket hung on a doorjamb with the first photos subject in the background.
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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    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.

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