Ground Wires Connected Outside of Switch Box

Cannun

Hello, I have a dual switch box. I am trying to replace one of the switches with a timer. As far as I can tell, all the ground wires are connected outside of the box. Here is a link to a picture to hopefully help make some sense.

http://onishiiin.com/MyImages/WP_000170.jpg

If you follow the green wire it comes out of the Romex and is routed right outside the box.

Any ideas on what to do would be helpful.

AllanJ

I trrust and hope that the ground wires are indeed connected together out there, with a crimp ring or wire nut or clamp as opposed to merely being twisted together.

I would try to find some kind of small screw-tightened clamp that will fit on one of the other (bare) ground wires without nicking it and tie the ground wire of (or a bare pigtail to) the new device's ground.

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Jim Port

Have you taken and tried to pull it back into the box?

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Cannun

Thanks for the reply's!

I have tried tugging on them slightly and they don't seem to budge. I didn't want to pull on them too hard and risk disconnecting the ground without fully understanding what I'm facing.