Appliance manufacturers don't bother with things like NEC requirements for
ampicity. Look inside your electric water heater, same thing. You're
suppose to run #10 wire on a 30 amp breaker to it, just to find that your
tying on to 12 or 14 gage wires inside. It's UL listed that way, so it's OK
to use it.



"PV" wrote in message
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Just a question out of pure curiosity.

New dishwasher installation, manual calls for a 20 amp breaker. No
problem, run 12Ga/2 (with ground ) Romex from breaker to J-Box, Run 12Ga/2
(with ground ) BMX up to dishwasher. Open dishwasher electrical cover and
it has 16Ga wire?????

So if code requires 12Ga for a 20 amp circuit how can the UL/CSA labeled
Kenmore dishwasher have 16GA wire for the final connection. Same thing
with the garbage disposal system.

Any thoughts on this one?

PV