This all on same breaker. Left, spliced wires are hot, but do nothing and there’s no switch for them.
Wires on the right are on a switch that controls two other lights closer to the breaker.
Can I just removed the splice and terminate the hot wires into a box mounted on the rafter?
i think the spliced goes to these wires, then leads somewhere else?
I was tasked to install the lights in an annex to my sisters “new” place - an annex to a centuries old timberframe house, with a big mess of an installation. Fusebox was a total chaos, several generations of fuses, and nothing documented. So I removed the main fuse, went up the ladder and wanted to unscrew a terminal - and found myself down at the floor again. Took out measuring tools, found nothing.
Went to the fusebox, checked every outgoing line, nothing. Went back into the annex, climbed up the ladder again, but measured before I started again. And found power! I simply shorted this (carefully!), it went “fump”, and power was gone again. But while I was standing on this ladder, measuring, the multimeter suddenly showed power again!
In the end, I found out that the annex was not powered by the house, but by the neighbors house. And they obviously had put the fuse back in that I popped out for them…