[450knotOffice]

All right all of you real electricians out there. I have a problem. I'm doing a kitchen renovation. I am putting a cabinet up on a previously blank wall that has a plug on it. I decided to simply remove the plug, cap off the wires with screw-on caps, shove all of the wires back into the box and cover it with a blank cover.

The problem is that two lamps near my kitchen sink no longer work. I'm guessing their power went through the plug. OK, I thought, no problem. I'll simply reconnect the plug and be right back where I started.

Hmm. Now I'm fairly good with electricity but I'm not quite up to the task before me. What I've got in the box is three bundles of wires. Each bundle has a black and a white wire. Two of the bundles have each black wire tied together and each white wire tied together so that they then produce ONE black wire and ONE white wire. The other bundle, the third one, is by itself.

Ok, so here's the switch setup for the two lights over my sink: Over on the wall I have one light switch. This light switch controls the power to two other light switches, each of which controls one light. In other words, if that single switch is off, the other two have no power. If it's on, they both have power.

Back to the wall. Only one black wire has power. It's the one that is the result of the two black wires being tied together. The other black wire in the other bundle shows no power. Interestingly, not only do both white wires seem to be ground wires but when I hook my multi-meter between the two black wires (the one with power, and the one that seems to be dead), I get a completed circuit, i.e., I show 110 volts.

What the heck gives?

All I want to do is get power back to my lights but I'm stumped as to how to hook this combo back to the plug.

BTW, the plug worked normally before this, as did the lights.

Ideas?