How to connect several lights to one switched supply?

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We have six (!) courtesy/mood lights on the outside of the garage. I want a single switch to turn them all on or all off. Trouble is you can't fit seven wires in any "normal" junction box I have seen. Is it OK to "dasiy-chain" junction boxes, by which I mean feed two lights from one and also feed another JB, and so on until I have supplied the six lights (i.e., three JBs)? Or, is there a JB with a bigger physical capacity?

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you can do what you were suggesting, just make sure that the switch is able to take the load etc
 
Why bother running all six cables back to one power source, just wire then all in parallel i.e. from switch to 1st light (one cable), from 1st light to 2nd light (one cable), from 2nd to 3rd etc, etc, less cable less hassle, no junction boxes scattered around.
 
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