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For the last week I have been pulling all the bs wiring in the attic and am now the proud owner of two (yes I said two) 50 gallon buckets full of wiring that didnt need to be there, must have been 9 million miles of intercome/phone and coax siiigh.
While deconstruction the rats nest, I noticed a couple of things on the attic fans. There are three of them and the 12/2 leads from the switch in the attic and then to the first fan and then on to the second and third. The connections from each fan junction box (thermosat box) are just connected to the incoming wires ie the connections are taped and then nutted.
My question is that if I remember correctly, you cannot have live wires that are not in a juntion box even if they are taped and nutted. Does this hold true for attic fans as well?
If it is required it looks like I would be bunching the individual wires from the attic fan box into a regular juntion box and then connecting them to the incoming wire. ie the wires from the fan box are already split and not encased in the nice standard white sheathing. I hope that makes sense. In other words it would be like if you split the wires from the main sheathing before it reached the junction box with 3 wires leading into the box instead of one that you then split to the connections. I hope I am not butchering this but before I change this all out I want to make sure I dsont have to re-wire the attic fan boxes.
Mucho thanks and yes you know you are bored when you are wiring in the attic at 4am in the morning.
RJ
While deconstruction the rats nest, I noticed a couple of things on the attic fans. There are three of them and the 12/2 leads from the switch in the attic and then to the first fan and then on to the second and third. The connections from each fan junction box (thermosat box) are just connected to the incoming wires ie the connections are taped and then nutted.
My question is that if I remember correctly, you cannot have live wires that are not in a juntion box even if they are taped and nutted. Does this hold true for attic fans as well?
If it is required it looks like I would be bunching the individual wires from the attic fan box into a regular juntion box and then connecting them to the incoming wire. ie the wires from the fan box are already split and not encased in the nice standard white sheathing. I hope that makes sense. In other words it would be like if you split the wires from the main sheathing before it reached the junction box with 3 wires leading into the box instead of one that you then split to the connections. I hope I am not butchering this but before I change this all out I want to make sure I dsont have to re-wire the attic fan boxes.
Mucho thanks and yes you know you are bored when you are wiring in the attic at 4am in the morning.
RJ