twobeemers
New Member
Hi guys (and gals).
I was playing around in my garage attic the other day and before I did, I powered off the overhead garage door opener outlet. My plan was to add an outlet in the garage attic so I could plug in a light or whatever when I went up there to move around stored stuff. So I shut off the power and checked it with an outlet tester and I got no lights so proceeded to do the work. When I was hooking things up I noticed the regular black leads but I also noted a red lead tied in to things. I didn't think much of it until I got a little shock off ot it when putting things back together. I put things back the way they were and didn't think too much about (tired and had a thousand other things to get done) but once I had some time to think about it, I can't think of a single reason why there should be more than one power lead into that box, and why it would be a hot lead.
So, this makes me think my innocent little garage outlet is wired incorrectly. My plan is to power off the outlet at the box and then try to track down the source of the power lead by shutting off other breakers in the box until I find it, then working back towards the other boxes/outlets in the area and remove teh offending lead from it's power source. Then snip off as much wire as I can reach from both ends so it CAN'T be used for anything else.
So two questions:
1. Can anyone think of a reason why there would be a red traveler in that box, and
2. does my method for fixing it make sound sense?
Thanks!!
I was playing around in my garage attic the other day and before I did, I powered off the overhead garage door opener outlet. My plan was to add an outlet in the garage attic so I could plug in a light or whatever when I went up there to move around stored stuff. So I shut off the power and checked it with an outlet tester and I got no lights so proceeded to do the work. When I was hooking things up I noticed the regular black leads but I also noted a red lead tied in to things. I didn't think much of it until I got a little shock off ot it when putting things back together. I put things back the way they were and didn't think too much about (tired and had a thousand other things to get done) but once I had some time to think about it, I can't think of a single reason why there should be more than one power lead into that box, and why it would be a hot lead.
So, this makes me think my innocent little garage outlet is wired incorrectly. My plan is to power off the outlet at the box and then try to track down the source of the power lead by shutting off other breakers in the box until I find it, then working back towards the other boxes/outlets in the area and remove teh offending lead from it's power source. Then snip off as much wire as I can reach from both ends so it CAN'T be used for anything else.
So two questions:
1. Can anyone think of a reason why there would be a red traveler in that box, and
2. does my method for fixing it make sound sense?
Thanks!!