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Posted by Mark Lloyd on October 17, 2006, 2:28 pm
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:25:29 -0600, sylvan butler
>> After reading your responses it seems that there is nothing inherantly
>> unsafe or wrong about using junction boxes. The problem seems to be
>> creating inaccessible splices that could fail later on and be difficult
>> to find. Also using a lot of j boxes can make a simple circuit
>> unecessarely complicated and hard trace later on. It's just not neat
>
>Yup.
>
>How about one centrally located junction box (e.g. under center of
>floor) with wires out to each outlet in all directions (like a big ol'
>spider).
That's the way most of my rooms are wired (except the JB is on the
ceiling, as this house is on concrete). I do sometimes with the lights
were on a separate circuit.
> Or perhaps one JB in the NW corner and one in the SE corner,
>each feeding two or three outlets on each adjacent wall.
>
>Life isn't just all or nothing.
>
>sdb
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