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donald girod
 
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Default Sizing electrical wall boxes.

You can

1) replace the box with a bigger box (pretty ugly job)

2) Intercept the cable you want to feed the circuit before it gets to the
box or after it leaves the box or whatever it may do, cut it, put the long
end into a new box and splice it to a new cable running to the old box; also
take off a cable for your new light load.

All this assumes that the circuit you are using isn't already got a lot of
load; there certainly is a lot of stuff in the box. As was pointed out, the
box is overfull, suggesting that some of the stuff there was added after
inspection.

3) Find another source for power, i.e. a box which isn't so full.

If you are daunted by all this, it might be a good idea to talk to an
electrician. The fact that you have #12 aluminum wiring in the box and are
going to have to splice in copper is another complication.

"jagerEd" wrote in message
news
Volts,

So, what is the way forward here? What do I do? there must be SOME way I

can
do this.




"volts500" wrote in message
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No, the box is already over allowance. Adding another cable (#12) would

add
another 2 count (one black, one white) or 2.25 x 2 = 4.5 cu. in. for a

total
of 33.75 cu. in. box needed.