extending the ground wire
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11-17-06, 12:18 PM
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extending the ground wire
I have undercabinet lights in my kitchen. 3 of them have not been properly grounded. The ground wire is too short to reach the light florescent light fixture. How do I extend it?
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11-17-06, 04:37 PM
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is said wire in a box behind your cabinet or something? If it is inside an electrical box, you can extend it by simply wirenutting a section of green or bare copper wire of the same gauge to it. That is only if you are truly talking about a grounding conductor (ground) and not a grounded conductor (neutral). Please provide more info.
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SNIX,
As someone already stated, if your are speaking of the EGC ( equipment grounding conductor ) within the undercounter luminares then you can simply wirenut to the shorter EGC ( keepig it the same AWG size ) and extending to the point of termination.
If you are talking about a wire in the wall as someone stated....it has to be in a junction box and accessible....not spliced wires in the wall...sorry not something you should do..EVER...
As stated.....if you have more details please provide them.
As someone already stated, if your are speaking of the EGC ( equipment grounding conductor ) within the undercounter luminares then you can simply wirenut to the shorter EGC ( keepig it the same AWG size ) and extending to the point of termination.
If you are talking about a wire in the wall as someone stated....it has to be in a junction box and accessible....not spliced wires in the wall...sorry not something you should do..EVER...
As stated.....if you have more details please provide them.
