Is this box too full? : r/electrical
I see eight cables,so you have at least 34 cubic inches of wire in a box designed
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Wirenuts in wall and too many wires for the box. see comment.
Obviously this is too much for this box but now I''m not sure how to fix this situation and, at the moment, pulling two new lines all the way isn''t an option and there''s nowhere to put a junction box without that
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Is this box too full? : r/electrical
I see eight cables,so you have at least 34 cubic inches of wire in a box designed for 13. It also doesn''t look like you have 6" of wire on all of those. You''re basically going to need a deep
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