In article , "TURTLE" wrote:


When Speaking of a Electrical breaker in a breaker box suppling electricity and
the 80% rule does not matter if the elctricity is supplied to a whole home or to
a one light bulb. If you have a 20 amp breaker in the box. You better not put
more that a 80% of 20 amp load on it. So You can have a 16 amp load to be
supplied to the 20 amp breaker.

Wrong.

i know now that your not a electrician for you would know exactly what I was
speaking about and you would be telling me about the 80% rules. So 80% Applies
to everything that will pull amps from a breaker and if you want to change
anything. Please be welcome to do as you please.

What you say here is completely wrong.

It's quite obvious that *you* are not an electrician, or you would know that
the 80% rule refers to continuous loads, defined by the NEC as "a load where
the maximum current is expected to continue for three hours or more." This
does *not* apply to residential lighting circuits, or indeed to most other
loads.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)

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