HI

I just moved into a 100 year old house. It has some knew wiring some
old.

In the kitchen I found a double gang switch box with one switch not
doing anything. I took the cover off. One switch is a 3 way. The
other switch has no wires attached. There are 4 sets of wire running
into the box. One set for the working switch. The other 3 sets are 2
plus grnd. The are all wired together blacks whites grounds. They
appear to be hot. They are not 3 way wires. Can anyone suggest what
these might be doing? Why they would have done this?

Thanks

Steve

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In the kitchen I found a double gang switch box with one switch not
doing anything. I took the cover off. One switch is a 3 way. The
other switch has no wires attached. There are 4 sets of wire running
into the box. One set for the working switch. The other 3 sets are 2
plus grnd. The are all wired together blacks whites grounds. They
appear to be hot. They are not 3 way wires. Can anyone suggest what
these might be doing? Why they would have done this?

I suspect that there was 2 light switches that worked at one time.
Later on, they updated the wiring. In the process, they put in
the 3-way, and eliminated the other light circuit. At the same
time, they used this box as a convenient place to splice together
some wires that feed outlets. Then, rather than getting a custom
cover with one light switch and one blank, they put on the old
dual switch cover, and put in the dummy switch to fill the unused
hole.

-john-

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In article .com
writes:

In the kitchen I found a double gang switch box with one switch not
doing anything. I took the cover off. One switch is a 3 way. The
other switch has no wires attached. There are 4 sets of wire running
into the box. One set for the working switch. The other 3 sets are 2
plus grnd. The are all wired together blacks whites grounds. They
appear to be hot. They are not 3 way wires. Can anyone suggest what
these might be doing? Why they would have done this?

One possibility is that the box is doubling as a junction/splice
box.

A friend has a 2-gang box in her garage with an outlet and a switch.
I couldn't figure out what the switch was for. She didn't know
either. Hadn't done anything in the 8 years she owned the house.
Eventually, in the course of tracing wires, I opened the box and
found that there were no wires to the switch, and no disconnected
wires.

My best guess was that the previous owner had an outlet-and-switch
plate to put on the box and put the useless switch in to fill the
hole.


I'm down to 2 "don't know what they do" switches in my 99 year old
house.

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