| Hey everybody, here's my question: I needed to tap in to an outlet | temporarily. The outlet is in a series, so I bypassed the outlet and wire | nutted three 12g wires together and "hid" them in the box. I screwed the | outlet back in the box disconected. The reason I did this is because I'm | having my service changed and my kitchen was remodeled with a new dishwasher | and I don't have a dedicated breaker for this appliance. Once it's installed | and inspected, I am going to run it to it's dedicated breaker. So in short, | will joining three 12 g wires with wire nuts in an outlet box cause a | potential fire?
Other posts seem to think you combined hot, neutral, and ground, all together in the nut. If you did that, of course, you'd be the nut. But since you are referring to getting a dishwasher working, I'm assuming you tapped into the outlet, which is not at the end of the series, to get juice. I'm assuming, and hoping, you wired hot-hot-hot in one nut, neutral-neutral-neutral in the next nut, and of course absolutely wired ground-ground-ground in the third.
First question is why couldn't you just put a plug on the dishwasher wire? Then run the dedicated circuit to an outlet of its own and move the plug over when it gets put in.
Are all these wires copper? If any are aluminum, you have issues (house burn down issues, too). Never tie aluminum to copper. And even if you are doing all aluminum, special handling has to be done to tie them together.