Attic Wiring Red Hot

Wires so hot you can t touch them aren t good.

Attic wiring red hot.

Use the hammer and staples to secure the cable to the joists at 12 inch intervals. Leave enough cable at each end to work with. Staple the cable within 8 inches of both the attic light box and the thermostat box. Connect your white wires together and secure with wire nut.

Connect the green wire to your household ground wire copper bare wire. Once the air in the attic has become hot another thermodynamic process called convection occurs. If you come across a wire or romex cable that nee. Wire nuts that are too small may initially feel like they are on the wire but they too may fall off.

Insert the end of the 12 2 wire into the fans junction box. Use wire nuts to connect. There should be no excess wire or ends left in the attic. Once you are running the wire feed both ends of the wire through their corresponding holes and climb down from the attic.

Wire nuts that are too big will not sufficiently grip the wire and will fall off. Turn the wire nut clockwise. Strip away about 6 inches of outer insulation and 1 2 inch of individual insulation from the end of each wire. Convection is the characteristic that makes hot air rise and cool air sink and it is at this point where a good ventilation system comes into play.

If the wires are buried in attic insulation pass over light fixtures or worst of all are arranged in tight bundles they get even hotter than if they re out in the open air. In order for the light to be controlled by its own switch the wiring between the switch and the fan unit needs a fourth wire a red wire to carry power to the light kit.