We just purchased a home and had mixed color electrical outlets (in the same room!!)and am replacing them with only 1 color. The first outlet was wired very strangely. There were 1 Romax wire sets going into the box. Both black were put together with a pigtail running to the hot one outlet. The 2 whites were run to the other outlet, one to hot and one to neutral, and the connection between the 2 hots was removed. Anyone have any idea why this would be run this way? I took off the pigtail and kept the 2 blacks together and just used the 2 whites to power the whole outlet. All the other outlets were normal. So far this is the only outlet like this. The lights are on a separate circuit.
-- Mike D.
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