Lighting, Light Fixtures, Ceiling and Exhaust Fans - Light switch wiring

Okay, I haven't done much electrical for a while, but I am doing some finishing on my basement and decided to move the ceiling lights around. Some of the switches are hooked up direct with the power coming into the switch, and out to the light in a single circuit.

Some of the switches, however seem to be all wired together, even when they go to separate lights, and even seem to come cross circuits coming from the box. I have not worked on the electrical on this new of a house before. Is there a particular reason for this type of wiring of the switches together?

Thanks.

It all depends on the layout of the room. If the light fixture is closer to the power source it is common to put the power to the fixture first.

Let me ask this question. Is it common to run shared current throug the light switches for different lights run from differnet swithes in the same box?

Also, it appear as though there are two sources of hot wires running into one group of 3 switches for 3 separate lights. And then all 3 switches are still connected together by pig-tails.

Thanks for your thoughts, this is just really confusing to me.

Let me ask this question. Is it common to run shared current throug the light switches for different lights run from differnet swithes in the same box?

No problem with that.


Also, it appear as though there are two sources of hot wires running into one group of 3 switches for 3 separate lights. And then all 3 switches are still connected together by pig-tails.

Thanks for your thoughts, this is just really confusing to me.

That doesn't sound right. Two different feeds should not be connect together. Are yousure it is not power in cable and then power out to other devices?

Thanks for the talk guys. It appears that the person who originally wired the house ran two sets of hot wires to one set of light switches, but the second hot wire was the spliced to the plugs for that wall.

I do not know why he would not just run a complete direct wire to the plugs, but tha is where I got confused.

Thanks again.