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Default Plan for Basement Electrical Outlets - Feedback Please

On Wed, 10 May 2006 20:37:44 -0700, "Jim McLaughlin" jim.mclaughlin
wrote:

No more than 10 plug ins on circuit. Plug ins no further than 6 feet
apart.


There is no logical reason for a limit on the number of recepticals
on a circut, nor was it, (last version I checked) in the NEC. The
only general requirement for the number of circuts falls out of the
requirement for 3watts/sqft of available power, and the limit of
20A per circut.

OTOH, there's no such thing as too much available power,
and it's a whole lot cheaper to run circuts all at the same
time than to come back and add another one.