Is there anything wrong with instead of dropping a wire down to a
socket and bringing a wire back up to continue the circuit, to use a
junction box to drop just one wire down?

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:36:17 +0000, QueGee wrote:

Is there anything wrong with instead of dropping a wire down to a
socket and bringing a wire back up to continue the circuit, to use a
junction box to drop just one wire down?

This creates a spur and is permissible as long as you are tapping into
a ring circuit and not continuing from another spur.

Also, you can't run another socket from the first in a daisy chain
with a spur done this way or from an existing socket on the ring.
However, if the connection at the position of your junction box were
made a fused connection unit with a 13A fuse, you can connect as many
sockets as you like downstream of it.

THe junction box should be located where it is accessible if it has
screw terminals.


..andy

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