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Stormin Mormon[_10_] Stormin Mormon[_10_] is offline
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Default installing 15 amp cabinet lights into a 20 amp circuit

On 2/25/2016 3:26 PM, mike wrote:
On 2/25/2016 11:00 AM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
I'd be tempted to run some 14 AWG wire from the
existing box, to a new box. And then wire nut
it within the new work box.

You can call black "hot", white is "neutral"
and green is "ground". Unless you want to call
them Cedrick, Susan, and Martian.

If it's a 20 amp breaker, don't you need #12?


It's a branch circuit, not a main line.

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