Recent content by Big Ears

Thanks for all the feedback. The house and garage are twelve years old and everything was installed by the builders except for the Junction Box in the garage which powers the security light (I connected into the lighting circuit some years ago to do that). I also extended the power lead that...

All 7 wires coming into the Metal Box are white. 4 connect to a four wire cable which runs to a two-way switch which controls a light outside of the garage. The other two-way switch is in the house and it is powered from one of the ways on the Consumer Board in the house. There is no...

The power to my detached garage is fed by a Crabtree 40amp 2 pole RCCB (30mA trip) located in the house. The cable runs 30 ft underground through a heavy duty sheath and appears as red, black and earth in a metal box at low level in the garage. It is joined in the box to a power cable which runs...