bugsiegel

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is there an electrician in here?

jmulder

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Whats up Bugs?

greenboot

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If you're thinking about running your plane off 110, forget it. The extension cord gets twisted in the prop when you hover.

Tom

bugsiegel

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here's a situation that I came across. I worked it out a different but I'll ask anyway.
from the breaker box there is a bx2 line pulled to a light box in the ceiling. from the light box the neutral is tied to the neutral on the light. the hot goes to the switch and back to the light. simple enough, the light works.
my question is this, is there a way to pull a live line from that switch box to be used for another fixture on it's own switch or an outlet?
what I'm also asking is if I tied a hot wire to the hot wire going into the switch and then grounded off the wall mounted box , that a correct way of doing this?
( it worked that way but I wasn't comfortable with it so I just pulled the line from the light box)

Hacker

Bugs, the correct way is to pull power from the "in leg"(should be black) in the switch box. make sure you are not overloading the circuit

PilotFrog

Bugs,
If you have a single 2 conductor line W/ground leaving the lightbox as a switch leg or using the cbx sheath as ground then you cannot draw power from the switch box as you are drawing power thru the ground connections and not the neutral (white wire) and this is a no-no , against code, and a shock hazard! You have a ground fault! The ground line is not designed to carry a current load and is usually lighter gauge and/or you are relying on ground path connections which can become corroded, overheat, and also be a fire hazard.

Also, the only time you can connect a white wire to black is on the leg to a switch(if you are using romex cable w/ground). You leave the light box by hooking white to the hot leg in the box. you return on black with switched "hot" to the light fixture. So the white is actually the "hot" line in the switch box. If you are using cbx then it should be black "hot" to the switch and you should leave the switch back to the light fixture on red "hot switched". It is good practice to mark white "hots" with a stripe of black electrical tape around it when using white/black 2 wire romex w/ground for switch legs. Regardless, you should never try to extract power from a switch leg by using the hot lead and ground.
If its cbx then run another neutral white wire down the conduit then you could use the hot & the white for power and still maintain ground integrity. As per previous warning, do not overload the circuit.
Hope this helps,
PilotFrog

Billy Hell

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Make sure you don't use the round wires. Use the ones that are flat. I'm sure you know why.

bugsiegel

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thanks guys for the answer. Now I under stand better.
what does that mean?

PilotFrog

Hell if I know????LOL