On Monday, May 30, 2016 at 12:14:44 AM UTC-4, Diesel wrote:

Sat, 28 May 2016 23:17:05 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

On Sat, 28 May 2016 20:04:33 -0000 (UTC), Diesel
wrote:


Thu, 26 May 2016 05:50:22 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

"Continuous load" means you size the circuit to 125% of total
load (14.6*1.25=18.25a)
so 18.25a is OK on a 12 ga wire with a 20a breaker

You're going over the 80% trade standard load (16amps on a 20amp
circuit) at that point,

Excuse me but the load is 14.6a. The 18.25a IS 125% of the load so
the 80% has been accounted for.

I sincerely do apologize for having missed that in my original reply
to you.

Sadly, that isn't all that you missed and misapplied.