Timeline for Is it acceptable that a 15A circuit be branched to multiple rooms?
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| Apr 26, 2017 at 2:53 | comment | added | larry pinsky | I undid the three 15 amps as you indicated and now it is is a single circuit breaker to shut it off. Just one other thing when should you use that double circuit breaker? | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 21:33 | comment | added | larry pinsky | @isherwood No im not misinterpreting. I tested each of the hots and they go to the three respective circuit breakers that the 14 gauge wires are wired nut to my bedroom. And your saying this is acceptable to NEC. Hard to believe. But your the expert. So i should leave it alone. | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 21:22 | comment | added | larry pinsky | Thank u, sorry Im not too clear will keep trying. Yes it was similar to your situation in your bedroom that all wires were connected together to three different 15 amps and if so should i undo that? Or what did you do? Or is it acceptable to NEC to do this. Sane with the neutrals. | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 17:45 | comment | added | wallyk | I live in a 1950s all electric house (originally electric heat, electric hot water). Initially, there were only four 15 amp circuits for outlets throughout the entire house! That included the kitchen (which had one outlet), garage, bedrooms, living room, dining room, and bath. One of the circuits had almost all the light fixtures and a few outlets: Murphy made sure that one tripped often. Now we have about 14 lighting/outlet circuits. The kitchen now has 18 outlets in four power strips fed from three 20 amp circuits. | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 16:36 | answer | added | gregmac | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 16:30 | comment | added | isherwood | And yes, it's both acceptable (unless that code has changed very recently) and commonplace that a single circuit breaker serve multiple rooms. | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 16:27 | comment | added | isherwood | I suspect that you're misinterpreting what you're seeing, Larry. You might edit your post to describe more clearly what makes you think those things are true. | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 16:27 | comment | added | gregmac | "This is what i also found in my bedroom as well as it was connected to that same wire nut two other 15 amp breakers." -- Do you mean there are two breakers that are connected to each other? If so, that is definitely wrong and could even be dangerous (may not correctly trip if over-loaded). | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 16:27 | history | edited | isherwood | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 21, 2017 at 16:21 | history | asked | larry pinsky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |