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I was going to change out this outlet.
It was previously all shoved together in a back-wire type outlet (The kind you just stab in). Was going to replace with a new side-wire outlet, but wasn't expecting 6 total wires.
For now, I've just pig-tailed the 3 live wires together, & the 3 neutral wires together, so that the next several outlets down work (crucially, the refrigerator's outlet doesn't work unless these are all connected).
Couple questions:
So I'd just pigtail in 2 more wires - 1 white wire to the 3 neutral wires, and 1 black wire to the 3 live wires, then connect those to single posts in the new outlet?
Is this not...excessively crowded in that electrical box? Is that OK?
Anything else I'm missing that means I'm going to burn down my house?
Thanks,
