I am replacing all the outlets and light switches in my place and I
have all of them done except for one, which I can't figure out for
the life of me. There are far more wires (3 black and 3 white plus
ground) than I am used to seeing. Anyone got any ideas?

wrote:
I am replacing all the outlets and light switches in my place and I
have all of them done except for one, which I can't figure out for
the life of me. There are far more wires (3 black and 3 white plus
ground) than I am used to seeing. Anyone got any ideas?

Far more wires...? With three pair? Two is the bare minimum. In any
event, you might have a three way switch or the live leg might be
feeding something else through the not-obviously-the-fixture leg.

R

wrote:
I am replacing all the outlets and light switches in my place and I
have all of them done except for one, which I can't figure out for
the life of me. There are far more wires (3 black and 3 white plus
ground) than I am used to seeing. Anyone got any ideas?

Just replace them exactly the same way they were on the existing switch
or outlet. Don't try to get creative.

--
Joseph Meehan

Dia duit

On 16 Feb 2006 10:30:11 -0800, wrote:

I am replacing all the outlets and light switches in my place and I
have all of them done except for one, which I can't figure out for
the life of me. There are far more wires (3 black and 3 white plus
ground) than I am used to seeing. Anyone got any ideas?


I get the idea that you're in over your head, yes...

Obviously it didn't occur to you to label anything when
you took the damn thing apart. I suppose there's
some religious reason why you feel you can't tell us
whether the box you're looking at is a switch or
a power outlet, and since you don't seem to have
any inclination to figure out where the wires
are coming from or going to, I'd say your only
option at this point is to hire an electrician.

--Goedjn

just replace the wires to the switch and put the smallest wire nuts on
the ends of the wires to the light, probably orange, put back in box
and forget about them.

power in pair, power out pair to another outlet, switched hot black to
lamp and common white to lamp?

http://www.electrical-online.com/how...HowToIntro.htm

http://www.handymanwire.com/articles/3wayswitch.html

On 16 Feb 2006 10:30:11 -0800, wrote:

I am replacing all the outlets and light switches in my place and I
have all of them done except for one, which I can't figure out for
the life of me. There are far more wires (3 black and 3 white plus
ground) than I am used to seeing. Anyone got any ideas?

One pair supplies power. The additional pairs are there for "Homeland
Security". One of them are for their bugs. The other pair control your
embedded nanobots.

:-)