I took a short call today. I was told to splice a jb located in this room. Inside the box was two mc cables (black white green solid conductors) and two black nonmetallic sheathed cables each having two identical black conducters and a bare conductor all stranded. In sheathed cable which looked like uf cable,I assumed that one of the black insulated conductors would be a grounded conductor and the other would be a hot and the bare conductor would be ground.
I think I was supposed to splice all the blacks together (4 from the sheathed cable and 2 from the mc cables) and tie the two noodles from the mc cable together with the bare conductors from the nonmettalic sheathed cable. Does this make any sence? It seems to me that you would be wiring your hots in parallel in the same cable and your nuetral would have parallel paths back to the source. Well I felt stupid anyway.
