On Wed, 10 May 2006 23:34:39 +0000 (UTC),
(Bob Vaughan) wrote:

In article et,
PipeDown wrote:
If you use 12-3 wire and a double breaker instead, you can easily wire each
of those 20 receptacles so that the top plug is one branch and the bottom is
another branch. Additional cost and labor is trivial.


Better yet, alternate phases between boxes, but don't split the outlets
within the box unless you decide to add some switched outlets, in which

This isn't better. The way most people use rooms, the power
hungry equipment tends to clump together, so you want
as many DIFFERENT legs accessible at each power-access-point
as you can conveniently manage.

case you could split an outlet for the switch leg. If you do add switched
outlets, do it as part of a quad box, so that there are at least two
unswitched outlets in the box.

Ok, that I like. Quad boxes, 2 outlets on one phase, one on the
other, and the last on the second phase, but switched. MARK
them.