"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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In article , "TURTLE"
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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.


This is Turtle.

first i don't do residentiual electric work and only commercial HVAC which
makes me do the electric for them.

Then perhaps you shouldn't be trying to answer questions about residential
electrical work...

Second if you was running power to lights and the lighting wattage was 2,400
watts / 24 -- 100 watt light bulbs and then would you say you would hook all
them up to a 20 amp breaker which the load would be matching a 2,400 watt
load.
Then or would you only connect 19.6 light bulb on the 20 amp breaker to not
over
load the breaker and trip if all the lights were turned on at one time. Awwwww
that would be the 80% rule. When every you pull over 80% of the breakers
rating.

No, that's just plain wrong. The 80% rule DOES NOT APPLY in this situation
because it is NOT a "continuous load" as defined in the NEC.
Your asking it to trip and you have to come back to rebalance the loads.

Nonsense. Twenty 100W light bulbs is NOT going to trip a 20A breaker.

Tell me what you would do with this problem !

I wouldn't do anything about it -- because it is NOT a problem.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

This is Turtle.

You missed the question of what you would do in this case. I stated that I would
not put but 20 -- 100 watt light bulbs on a 20 amp circuit / breaker. The 20
light bulbs would be the max i would put on the 20 amp breaker because of the
80% rule.

what is the max number of 100 watt light bulbs that you can put on a 20 amp
breaker ?

So , What is the answer to this question ?

TURTLE