stan wrote:
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2) The capacity of a single duplex outlet can be doubled by wiring it
'Edison outlet style'. Simply this means that one half of the outlet
is fed with say the black live and the other half with the 'other leg'
red live wire, white is the neutral, common to both. At this stage you
could drop down #12 AWG Red/Black/White plus ground for the short
distance from a few selected outlets and then later decide if you want
to use Edison style wiring or not. If not then ignore the red wire and
or wire the red and black together!
The added capacity can be useful if, for example, you may have two
reasonably 'heavy' appliances on the same outlet; e.g. a 100+ watt
m.wave and say a toaster-oven/electric fry-pan.
Edison outlets use double pole breakers, so you could plan for that
later during electric service replacement.


While Stan is correct technically, for the sake of the poor SOB having
to reverse-engineer the wiring 20 years from now at the next remodel, I
would recommend against it. Wire things up vanilla, and label the runs
in the panel (sharpie works great) and at the junction boxes. Plus
labeling the breakers, of course. An annotated floorplan nailed to wall
near the service panel, is a a wonderful gift to electricians not yet born.

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