Unless my electrical guide book is wrong, it says that you consider each
outlet as 180 watts and if I recall you are allowed to add 10-12 outlets on
one 15A circuit. Every circuit in my house has around 10 outlets and 2
lights. Wouldn't that be against code if I was to add any more circuits?
Thats why I keep ranting about room to expand.


"Goedjn" wrote in message
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On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:15:20 -0800, "Nathan" wrote:

Yeah, I agree with you. Though wouldn't the best solution be to have two
circuits per room. It would cost a bit more, especially with the price of
copper now days, but theye would always be room to expand. And if you
needed to work on a circuit, you still have the other circuit to provide
light or operate tools.

What is it with this "room to expand" crap? If you want
more receptacles on a circut, you stick them in. the only time
there's a problem is if you're adding enough equipment to push
the ampacity of your breakers, in which case, you probably
need a dedicated circut somewhere anyway.