heater in shower ceiling

[ggunn]

Ahh, now thats why. Makes sense. Would this also force a 20amp circuit since its called for in the instructions despite the current rating only being 12.5 amps?

Could it be that the manufacturer wants it wired for continuous use?

 

[kwired]

I make my living installing circuits. I am fine with every item requiring a dedicated circuit.

Easy to say when you are the installer, not as easy (I didn't say impossible) to say when you are the one that does bidding and has to be competitive with the bid.

 

[edlee]

Unless that ceiling is tile it cannot be a wet location.

Drywall and paint are not wet location building methods.

OK

 

[edlee]

I don't agree that a shower ceiling is necessarily a wet location. I don't find water on the ceiling of our bathroom after I take a shower.

OK

 

[ActionDave]

I don't agree that a shower ceiling is necessarily a wet location. I don't find water on the ceiling of our bathroom after I take a shower.

Then you're not doing a good enough job trying to get clean.

 

[mbrooke]

Could it be that the manufacturer wants it wired for continuous use?

They might considering its a heating load (as the NEC considers them as such)... but in my eyes 12.5amps already looks to be taking continuous into account.

 

[kwired]

They might considering its a heating load (as the NEC considers them as such)... but in my eyes 12.5amps already looks to be taking continuous into account.

Spring wound timer three hours max and without any hold position as a control makes it not a continuous load:happyyes:

 

[mbrooke]

Spring wound timer three hours max and without any hold position as a control makes it not a continuous load:happyyes:

Now your thinking :thumbsup:

 

[ggunn]

Spring wound timer three hours max and without any hold position as a control makes it not a continuous load:happyyes:

After my wife burned two holes in the carpet and melted a corner of my shaving kit by forgetting and leaving on her curling iron, I put one of those on the outlet in her section of the bathroom counter.

 

[iwire]

Then you're not doing a good enough job trying to get clean.

Maybe he does not work with poop all day?

 

[ActionDave]

Maybe he does not work with poop all day?

There's good money in shhhhhh.......that stuff. My fair city just got approved to spend 58 million dollars on a treatment plant.

 

[kwired]

After my wife burned two holes in the carpet and melted a corner of my shaving kit by forgetting and leaving on her curling iron, I put one of those on the outlet in her section of the bathroom counter.

She needs new curling iron, AFAIK today they all shut off after certain time period, and need to be "started" after you plug them in as well. Not that I use one, but the wife is always complaining when she comes back later to find it isn't warm yet because she forgot to start it.

 

[GoldDigger]

She needs new curling iron, AFAIK today they all shut off after certain time period, and need to be "started" after you plug them in as well. Not that I use one, but the wife is always complaining when she comes back later to find it isn't warm yet because she forgot to start it.

I do that with our oven a lot. First you press Bake, then enter the temperature and everything looks fine but if I do not press Start it shuts off after I have walked away.