hurk27
Senior Member
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- Portage, Indiana NEC: 2008
Allowed anywhere in Indiana.
With that said, the problem with rules like this is no one considers what gets plugged in, many occupants will have older appliances such as table lamps and such with lamp cord sized to small to open a 20 amp OCPD in the event of a fault, I have seen such a case and its not good.
A 20 amp OCPD will not protect a 16 or 18 awg lamp cord from overload just fault current, many older table lamps, holiday lighting, and other appliances came with 18 and even 20 awg lamp cords, even today we can sometimes see cheap China lamp cords that are too small for even a 15 amp circuit, I think the smallest cord I found and turned into UL was a 24 awg Yike's
Now I understand why a few wish to raise circuit sizing to 20 amp and 12 awg but to me it is asking for trouble where circuits feed general purpose receptacles.
We need to keep protection closer to lamp cord ratings since older lamps will be in use for a long time!
With that said, the problem with rules like this is no one considers what gets plugged in, many occupants will have older appliances such as table lamps and such with lamp cord sized to small to open a 20 amp OCPD in the event of a fault, I have seen such a case and its not good.
A 20 amp OCPD will not protect a 16 or 18 awg lamp cord from overload just fault current, many older table lamps, holiday lighting, and other appliances came with 18 and even 20 awg lamp cords, even today we can sometimes see cheap China lamp cords that are too small for even a 15 amp circuit, I think the smallest cord I found and turned into UL was a 24 awg Yike's
Now I understand why a few wish to raise circuit sizing to 20 amp and 12 awg but to me it is asking for trouble where circuits feed general purpose receptacles.
We need to keep protection closer to lamp cord ratings since older lamps will be in use for a long time!