dpb wrote:
Puddin' Man wrote:
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One of the black wires was stripped about 1 " in the middle (where the
wire was not cut), kinked, and wire-nutted (nothing else in the nut,
just the kink). Both the strip and the wire nut serve no purpose
whatsoever that I can see.

Has anyone seen anything like this? If so, know why they did it?
...

Well, no I don't think anybody is going to "know", but the guess would
be there was at one time a splice there if, indeed the wire hasn't been
cut.

Actually, whether it was cut or not...

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