2 Sets Of Wires In One Outlet

All the other outlets in the room have one black and one white wire.

2 sets of wires in one outlet. So i tried the other set of wires. Can i take the extra black and extra white from the bottom tabs of the outlet and extend it behind the kneewall into the hallway and make a new outlet. I turned the pwer back on and the light worked but the switch would turn it off. One of the cables is the live cable that either comes from another device that has power or directly from the panel.

The outlet with 2 is not connected to a switch or anything. It was a light bar with two set of wires black white and ground going to it. And now when i turn the breaker back on i get no voltage between any of the sets of wires. When an outlet receptacle falls in the middle of a circuit run rather than at the end there are generally two cables in the outlet box.

Wires b this is the power coming to this box tested with a volt meter to 120v wires c this set goes to a light switch that powers lights in that same room which ends there does not continue from that switch. Thinking maybe the outlet is shot i went and replaced it with a new one. Could the extra set of wires be and end run from a different connection. If you re wiring an outlet in the middle of a chain of outlets you ll have two cables in the outlet box.

There are 2 other outlets in this room and 2 other rooms that must be on the same branch because the lights don t work in those rooms. I am replaing it with a smaller fixter that only needs one set. It worked for a bit and now there s nada. I capped one set of wired and then wired the other set to the new fixture.

The last outlet has one set of black white and ground wires where the other outlets have two sets. The other cable goes to the next outlet in the chain.