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In Reply to: RE: Circuit flow goes like this.... posted by dcuhl on June 14, 2014 at 04:43:30
Like I said in my last post unless the 15 amp breaker is tripping due to overload conditions, changing the breaker from a 15 to a 20 amp will not make any difference in sound from your system.
What may make a difference is how you terminated the #12 solid core wires on the Pass & Seymore 20 amp 8300 Receptacle.
*Did you curl the wire around the terminal screws and then tighten the screw down on the wires?
Or, did you insert each straight wire under the terminal plate and then tighten the screw down against the terminal plate?
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*Did you terminate/connect the hot and neutral conductors across from one another on the same receptacle? With this type of termination/connection the other rectacle of the duplex is fed from the small connecting tie tabs.
Or, did you connect the hot wire on one receptacle of the duplex and the neutral wire to the other receptacle so the connecting tie tabs will evenly pass current to each receptacle?
Or did you.... install small jumpers around the connecting tie tabs of the duplex receptacle?
Jim
Follow Ups:
Sorry for the delayed response. The hot lead is curved around the leading screw terminal, neutral wire curved around trailing screw terminal, in a catty-cornered fashion with two, .1uF 275 VAC x2 caps, one per terminal pair, bridging hot and neutral to help reduce AC line noise. No small jumpers were installed, in hind-sight I should have done that.
Things are about to change, as I will be swapping out the Pass and Seymor 8300 for an Oyaide R-0 outlet. I have been pondering which of the tweek materials I have, to use during the swap and there are many, such as: ERS cloth, Silver Electricians Paste, Copper Foil, Copper Tape with Conductive Adhesive, TI Shield, Metglas, as well as, an assortment of Crystals, Minerals and Rare Metal Samples, though no iridium, a bit pricey.
I am not an electrician, but was a contractor and wired many homes and am friends with many electricians. An electrician would never put a 15 amp breaker on a circuit that used 12 ga. wire. How do you know it is 12 ga wire throughout the circuit? True 20 amp receptacles are rare. They use a t shaped hot prong. The ONLY difference going up in breaker size would do is prevent breaker tripping. It is not against the law to put an oversize breaker on a circuit, but if you have a fire and make an insurance claim, be sure they will inspect things and they will find out if you had an appropriate sized breaker. It makes no difference if you curve the wire or not. My advice is don't mess with it...
I did mess, but I had an electrician supervise it (also relative). I know it is code.
Dave
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