Installing new wall receptacle...

jaysen

Rereading your answers I just answered my own question. I need to cut the connection in the middle (DUH, I missed this). How does one go about doing this?

BigJimmy

Sweet

HA, me too!

Sounds like you figured this out on your own. I thought that you weren't going to split the new recept so I didn't go into much depth. Sorry!

Glad it worked out for you!

Pair of dikes/side cutters will do it.

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jaysen

OK OK OK !! I'm guilty I just can not get enough of this electrical stuff !!!

BigJimmy-
I will try and make this real quick. I'm going to install one more receptacle in the closet where all my new A/V equipment will go. There is a shared wall from the bathroom to the closet where I will be putting this equipment.

It just so happens that there is a GFCI receptacle on the shared wall inside the bathroom. Ideally I would love to pull from that receptacle for the new one only because I would not have to do any patch work and very little fishing...

I talked to someone at work who has some knowledge on this stuff so I wanted to run his answers by you to make certain this was correct;


I was told that when pulling from a GFCI I can pull from either side Load/Line if I am only installing a non-gfci receptacle with no plans to ever pull from there.

It looks like my current GFCI receptacle is in the middle of the run;
There are a total of three lines coming into the box - two of which are pigtailed together and are fed on the Load side (i believe)


Same way in my previous posts and your answers, add a small pigtail and run the new line to the new receptacle ? Any other considerations ? I would try and take pics however my gf has my digi cam!

Thanks!

BigJimmy

Me too. Sometimes I wish that I'd become an electrician instread of an enginerd.

Well, I wish I had better news but unfortunately, you cannot tap off of the bathroom receptacle to power something in a different room.

As far as your question about the GFCI (which may or may not be of any interest at this point), you can wire off of either the upstream or downstream side. If you go from the LINE sided, then your additional circuit is not subject to GFCI protection. On the other hand, if you tap off of the LOAD side, then that circuit will be protected by the GFCI.

I'm not sure I understand this part, esp. when you say "...if I am only installing a non-gfci receptacle."

Sorry for the bad news. Time to bust out the drill-a!

Jimmy

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