MikeS
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- Location
- Chapel Hill NC
Looked @ a job the other day for bid - customer wants to finish off an attic space for a home office. When the house was built, the original EC Pulled a 14/3 "spare" circuit up there for future use.
I like to separate lights from receptacles when I wire a room, plus, with cans & whatever office equipment he may have, he might exceed 15A for the room, especially when vacuuming/ cleaning. The sub panel in the basement that feeds the circuit is GE & they don't make a combo 2 pole AFCI Breaker. To keep costs down and minimize damage to finished portions of the house, I'm trying to avoid pulling a new wire from the basement to the attic.
Can I install a tiny 4 space subpanel up there, fed by the 14/3 and arc fault the 2 circuits from there? Having trouble finding code ref on this one....
Thanks in advance
I like to separate lights from receptacles when I wire a room, plus, with cans & whatever office equipment he may have, he might exceed 15A for the room, especially when vacuuming/ cleaning. The sub panel in the basement that feeds the circuit is GE & they don't make a combo 2 pole AFCI Breaker. To keep costs down and minimize damage to finished portions of the house, I'm trying to avoid pulling a new wire from the basement to the attic.
Can I install a tiny 4 space subpanel up there, fed by the 14/3 and arc fault the 2 circuits from there? Having trouble finding code ref on this one....
Thanks in advance