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In Reply to: RE: All you kids...... posted by jea48 on July 20, 2014 at 21:24:20
Hi Jim,
If you have a 15 amp receptacle in series with a 20 am receptacle on a 20 amp branch circuit, does all the wire have to be 12ga, or can the wire to the 15 amp receptacle be 14ga.?
Dave
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If you have a 15 amp receptacle in series with a 20 amp receptacle on a 20 amp branch circuit, does all the wire have to be 12ga, or can the wire to the 15 amp receptacle be 14ga.?
Dave,
All the 20 amp branch circuit in wall wiring must be #12.
Minimum in wall wire size for a 20 amp branch circuit is #12. It can be larger, just not smaller.Receptacles are not in series with one another they are in parallel with one another. When the receptacle is used as a junction/splice to feed the hot and neutral conductors, wires, from one receptacle to the next the receptacles they are still in parallel with one another. Many do call this configuration as "daisy chaining" the receptacles. (The receptacle shall not be used as a splice point for the safety equipment grounding conductor.
Jim
Edits: 07/21/14
receptacles are wired in parallel...never in series, If the wire is 12 ga, only then can a 20 amp receptacle be used. You cannot use different size wire in a circuit.
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