My bedrooms are all on the same circuit, and the only other room on that
circuit is the bathroom. I would like to split that off anyway so in my
case I really don't care. At the same time I do that I will probably
pull another homerun from the 2nd floor back to the breaker panel so
that I can split the bedrooms into two circuits (yes I have another AFCI
standing by.)

I actually have a 40 ckt. 200A panel in my house, but it only has 20
full sized breaker spaces, so there's lots of half height breakers in
there (now.) If *I* were the guy doing the upgrade, I would have spec'd
a larger panel, but that's water under the bridge.

I'm digressing a bit, but sort of on the same topic, I have a question
regarding the wiring between my house and my garage. The house's
breaker panel has a 100A 2-pole breaker in it, which feeds the subpanel
in the garage. The other end of that wire connects to a 100A 2-pole
breaker in the sub-panel. That just seems weird and redundant to me.
Is this common practice, and what is the reason for it? Or did someone
improvise "on the fly" and what would be the right way to do it?

nate

RBM wrote:
It's fine to do that, but unless your bedrooms were wired on dedicated
circuits, maybe not practical given the issues with the current crop of AFCI
breakers, also if you buy a full sized panel, such as a forty circuit 200
amp panel, there are no half size breakers allowed. You only have provisions
for half sized breakers with reduced size panels


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Why not? I've added an AFCI to my house, along with a TVSS. I used
receptacles where GFCIs would be required. It takes minimal effort
"while you're in there" and while it may not be 100% compliant with
modern codes, it's closer than it was.

My advice would be to use full sized breakers exclusively, but get a
panel that allows half height breakers, that way there's room for
expansion in the future.

nate

On Feb 2, 4:25 pm, "RBM" rbm2(remove wrote:

It's an old house so they probably wouldn't be using any arc fault or
ground
fault breakers, which incidentally take the same space as any other full
sized breaker

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how many spaces would be
already filled by the items in our present fuse box and how many
extra
spaces would there be?

You'll use the same number of breakers as the number of fuses you're
using
now.

True, but on a breaker box more space is better. What I can't say for
sure is how many arc fault or ground fault breakers that they might
want to put in. Those take up a lot of space. More space is
beneficial because then you can put all your applicnaces on separate
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