I have a pond in front of my house. At the present time, my pump and other devices are simply plugged into an extension cord that runs through a window to a recptacle in my garage. Temporary power. Anyway, there are no receptacle around the area where the pond is. I have several lights that are wired together under my house for lighting the crawl space. The end of the run for the lights is about 20' from the exterior wall where I am wanting to install a GFCI socket to power the pond stuff. I would like to be able to use the circuit the lights are on as the power source for the outdoor recaptacle by either removing the lights all together or maybe even running the power from the last light in the run to/through the exterior wall to the GFI. Can I do this? Should the lights be taken out of the circuit? Also, what is the best way to run the cable through the foundation to the outside of the house. I have read that I would need to have a junction box on the inside of the wall(under the house) that is joined to the receptacle box (for the GFI on the outside of the wall)with a piece of conduit for the cable to run through the brick. This correct? Is there a better or simpler solution to do this?
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18 years ago