On Mon, 1 May 2017 08:20:09 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

On Monday, May 1, 2017 at 6:56:05 AM UTC-4, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Sunday, April 30, 2017 at 9:46:17 PM UTC-4, philo wrote:
On 04/30/2017 03:35 PM, wrote:
Both black wires appeared to be hot when I tested them. Then I noticed the two red wires. This was an unused junction box in the ceiling of my garage. I have two two outlet receptacles. Only one of the black wires should be hot right?




White is cold.

green (if present is ground)

all other colors are hot such as black , red, blue & yellow

Replace your "is" and "are" with "should be".

We really don't know how the OP's box is wired.

P.S. The term is "nuetral" not "cold".

It's not clear what the total wire count is, but it sounds
like two of each of those colors? If so, he has a lot of wires
going into one unused ceiling box. Possible that either the
black or the red are switched, the others permanently hot.

We are far from having enough information to do more than offer a wild
assed guess.