Tapping off appliance chords

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dukjnky

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Is it "Code" or an acceptacle wiring method to tap off an oven appliance chord to feed a separate receptacle for the overhead microwave above the oven/range unit. The appliance chord comes out of the receptacle into a handy box size fuse holder or SSR ,where one of the hot legs is sent into the line side of the fuse holder and the load side is a 14/2 or a 12/2 nm cable(romex) to the receptacle for the microwave above.

In my practice,its always been the "norm" to just run a dedicated circuit for the microwave and not to tap off other appliances even though there is fusible over-current protection involved.This seems to be a pretty common practice in the appliance installation field but is it right and acceptable?
 

hurk27

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Re: Tapping off appliance chords

Well I could think of a few codes that might deal with this. But the main one would be the loaction of this fuse holder? readly accessable? close to combustables? This question has come up from time to time but never with the fuse holder in it. And the fact that without it a 20 amp receptacle cannot be taped from a 50 amp circuit.
A good question though.
Let's see what others have to say.
 
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