Unused breakers goes to junction box and nothing else. Any reason for this, or can I reuse it?
About 3 years ago I bought a house that was built in 1996 (NC, USA). One of the things that has always bothered me is that 2 of the bedrooms, the guest bathroom, and a hallway in the back are all on one single 15 amp circuit. It feels like way too much (not helped by the fact that one of those bedrooms is my office which has lots of equipment in it). I recently installed energy monitoring on the breaker panel and I found a 20 amp circuit that never pulled power (the whole breaker panel is unlabeled). I went in the crawl space and found that drop and it goes to a junction box and that's it. It just terminates there and is completely unused. https://imgur.com/a/uyIEvWs I'm assuming (and actually hoping) this is a dumb question but I want to ask and make sure: is there any reason this shouldn't be used? Any reason it would exist beyond it is extra and was left for future expansion? My plan is to put my office on this unused circuit and I just want to make sure there isn't some weird reason this is meant to remain like this (again... I know this is a dumb question with an obvious answer but I try to be smart enough to ask people who know more than me). Thanks! submitted by /u/TheForgetfulDev [link] [comments]
About 3 years ago I bought a house that was built in 1996 (NC, USA). One of the things that has always bothered me is that 2 of the bedrooms, the guest bathroom, and a hallway in the back are all on one single 15 amp circuit. It feels like way too much (not helped by the fact that one of those bedrooms is my office which has lots of equipment in it).
I recently installed energy monitoring on the breaker panel and I found a 20 amp circuit that never pulled power (the whole breaker panel is unlabeled). I went in the crawl space and found that drop and it goes to a junction box and that's it. It just terminates there and is completely unused.
I'm assuming (and actually hoping) this is a dumb question but I want to ask and make sure: is there any reason this shouldn't be used? Any reason it would exist beyond it is extra and was left for future expansion?
My plan is to put my office on this unused circuit and I just want to make sure there isn't some weird reason this is meant to remain like this (again... I know this is a dumb question with an obvious answer but I try to be smart enough to ask people who know more than me).
Thanks!
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