indago wrote:

040613 0947 - Yi Jin posted:


I am wiring a 20amp circuit. The #12 seems pretty hard to
deal inside the electral box for the with the receptacle.

I notice all the books demonstrates that incoming wires
and outgoing ones connect to the seperate screws on the
receptacle. Is there any reason not to use a pigtail
and connect to the receptacle first, then connect it
together in/out wires with a wire nut, just like what
is done to a ground wires? That would be much easier
than to bend those short and hard #12 wires and try to
screw on those 4 hot/neutral wires?

I am talking about the middle of the run, non-split
receptacle.

Thanks.

Y.


It would be beneficial to wire nut the circuit wires together with a pigtail
of 14 guage wire to the outlet.


If you pigtail fifteen ampere wire to a duplex fifteen ampere receptacle
then you can draw more current through the two receptacles than the
pigtails can safely carry without opening the Over Current Protective
Device (OCPD).

There are some instances were a conductor ampacity that is less than the
circuits OCPD rating can be connected to a circuit but those exceptions
all involve conductors that terminate at overload protection or serve
fixed amperage loads. None of that applies to the conductors serving
general use receptacles.
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Tom H