An appliance installer told me "For a microwave circuit I just tap into the range circuit behind the stove and install one of these
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where the microwave hood will plug into" And of course first thing out of my
mouth was "no you can not tap into the range circuit with 12 awg wires"
The only code section that I was able to give him was the Tap rules. Then again I was thinking about it and the 12 awg is protected with a 15 amp fuse, however, the ground fault protection is 40 Amps.
But I still could not say it a unsafe install based on XXX code section.
Any comments please.
mouth was "no you can not tap into the range circuit with 12 awg wires"
The only code section that I was able to give him was the Tap rules. Then again I was thinking about it and the 12 awg is protected with a 15 amp fuse, however, the ground fault protection is 40 Amps.
But I still could not say it a unsafe install based on XXX code section.
Any comments please.