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Is it okay for neutral and ground wire to be on the same bus?As shown in photos I’m installing a new breaker and noticed...
12/23/2025

Is it okay for neutral and ground wire to be on the same bus?

As shown in photos I’m installing a new breaker and noticed that the ground and neutral wires are all on the same bus. As circled I ran a new wire for a new breaker and put the neutral and ground next to each other. Based on my research this is okay but I just want to make sure.

Any way to safely connect the red and black wire? What is the white wire?This is a covered outlet at a storage facility....
12/23/2025

Any way to safely connect the red and black wire? What is the white wire?

This is a covered outlet at a storage facility. It used to be a timer switch or simply a light switch.

The pic where the red and black are connected is for my neighbor’s unit, which has a working ceiling light.

The pic with all the wires not connected is my unit, which does not have a working ceiling light.

I’ve put a non-contact voltage tester up to it and it reads hot.

My hope is that if I connect the red and black, I’d then have a working light.

I can’t disconnect power because this is a storage unit at a national company.

Could I safely bend the red and black out, remove their caps, and tie them together? I was thinking wearing electrician’s gloves and using a plastic pliers.

Any other suggestions?

Why does my neighbor’s unit work with the white wire disconnected?

Damn those Canadians, don't forget they connect all the ground wires to the box ground screws and snip snip. Switches do...
12/23/2025

Damn those Canadians, don't forget they connect all the ground wires to the box ground screws and snip snip. Switches don't need ground jumpers.

For those that were asking for the outside wiring situation
12/23/2025

For those that were asking for the outside wiring situation

Heard we’re wiring up wieners
12/23/2025

Heard we’re wiring up wieners

First Disconnect & transformer1st year apprentice, just looking for some constructive criticism on how I wired in my fir...
12/23/2025

First Disconnect & transformer

1st year apprentice, just looking for some constructive criticism on how I wired in my first safety disconnect switch and transformer.

Confused about wiring behind light switchI’m trying to update an old light switch to a brilliant smart switch. The new s...
12/23/2025

Confused about wiring behind light switch

I’m trying to update an old light switch to a brilliant smart switch. The new switch requires a neutral wire, this is what my gang box looks like.

The ceiling has 4 wires coming out of it tied together in 2 pairs. I assumed two were hot and 2 were neutral but when I look behind the light switch all I see are two pairs of black wires.

Is it possible that thin thing in the top right of the pic is a neutral wire buried behind the box?

Also weird is that I had to turn off two different breakers to kill the power from both sets of wires behind the light switch, but the previous owners had tied together both wires into a single light fixture despite the wires coming from 2 different breakers.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Help me correctly wire 3-way switch and continuous power outlet. Info in bodyThis 3-way switch powers a ceiling light fo...
12/23/2025

Help me correctly wire 3-way switch and continuous power outlet. Info in body

This 3-way switch powers a ceiling light for a utility area. It's also wired to provide continuous power to an outlet. It was wired this way when the home was built. But when this specific switch is flipped, it cuts power to the outlet. How is it supposed to be wired correctly to provide continuous power regardless of the switch position? The highlighted wire goes to the outlet. The white/common is connected to all the other common wires in the gang box.

A quick odd one.I have some super basic understanding for the generic home owner. I can swap switches or outlets, the oc...
12/23/2025

A quick odd one.

I have some super basic understanding for the generic home owner. I can swap switches or outlets, the occasional ceiling fan and run a new line if absolutely necessary.

While vacuuming the pool. The outlet that was supplying power for the pool pump got very wet and shorted. In the panel in the house no breaker was tripped. Current tester said there was no juice at the outlet. The gang box has two sets of wires. One outlet was gfi and the other was not. Flipped the breaker to kill the power for sure and removed both the existing crispy outlets from the box and this is what was inside. I followed the outlet diagram for wiring a gfi outlet (line,load,etc). Flipped the breaker back on and confirmed power at the new gfi outlet. But it doesn’t work. No power from that outlet is being supplied to anything i plug in. And for a little extra dose of unusual. At the panel the black leg is what comes out of the breaker. In the gang box black leg doesn’t make a hint of a power chime. But the red leg does. Which i don’t understand at all. Any configuration i could come up with to wire it up left me with the same no power result. Am i missing something super basic?

I do realize where I’m out of my depth and contacted my trusted licensed electrician to come and square it away tomorrow.

Bathroom exhaust fan switch questionThis is the switch box and wiring to the existing exhaust fan/light combo in our bat...
12/23/2025

Bathroom exhaust fan switch question

This is the switch box and wiring to the existing exhaust fan/light combo in our bathroom. It has 1 switch controlling both. Is there a way to change this switch to a top/bottom double rocker switch or another single gang double switch to control them independently? I know we have to replace the junction box in the ceiling as it was attached to an expandable cross brace for the previous fan. I would just like to be able to have the fan on without the light having to be on.

Looking for a junction box cover for 4 x 4 (non-standard hole placement)
12/23/2025

Looking for a junction box cover for 4 x 4 (non-standard hole placement)

Why doesn't anyone sell this?!? (Free business idea)I like having a LOT of outlets. My default is to install two gang bo...
12/23/2025

Why doesn't anyone sell this?!? (Free business idea)

I like having a LOT of outlets. My default is to install two gang boxes so I get four outlets.

When I was recently installing a critical loads panel for a battery backup system, I had to spend like an hour creating several of these pre-wired quad outlets. Why doesn't some electrical supply company have some foreign low wage factory pre-assemble these and make them available?!? I would pay extra for these.

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