Why must you claim to be what you are not?:huh:
I am not tying to assassinate your character, being something other than an electrician is not a bad thing and certainly not an insult. But I abhor untruths and claiming to be an electrician when you are not one is kind of odd. Have you held an electrical license in any US state?
Because I have an extensive history of doing hands on electrical work both rough-ins and trouble shooting. I am not oblivious to the real world. I may not do it right now at the moment, but that does not mean I did it in the past. Insisting the same thing over and over without any proof serves no purpose other then to de-rail the discussion at hand. What set this off was when I claimed inspectors ought to question the NEC regarding AFCIs and you took that at face value. I never said that inspector pick and choose what codes they follow, rather that inspectors should question the code, especially when fraud is being passed into law. Im sorry if that upset you, but thats my opinion regarding inspectors and I stand by it 100%.
By the discretion of the installer.
Seriously, explain how you do that when you wire houses because I have been doing this a long time and I have no idea how to distribute something evenly that does not have a value.
Ok, here is how I did it. 1,800 square foot code minimum home, 4 15 amp circuits. 1 15 amp circuit goes up and wraps around the living room walls, circuit branches off at receptacle boxes to switch boxes above along the runs which feed back porch lights, back hall lights, down stairs half bath lights, and back hall receptacles. A 14-2 may drop directly below to a basement light (pull string, nice try
). Second 15 amp circuit runs feeding the front of the home, feeding outlets along along the front half of the home, 14-2 up the the front door switch box for outside lights and hall light via 14/3, 14-2 from the hall light to the dinning room lights (switch leg for control), hits up other lights like the kitchen and over the sink lights and hood in some cases. Third and forth are via 14/3 MWBC that runs upstairs. The circuit split off in the hall. Circuit one feeds all of the master bedroom and master bath lights. Circuit two takes on the halls lights, second bedroom and upstairs hall bath. Exterior and bath rectacles via a separate GFCI branch circuit (latter changed to baths only to follow the NEC).
Thus, in my eye this is an even distribution of those minimum circuits.
If I did it where 1 circuit did 2 beds, 3 baths, living room, den, ect ect with the remaining three only doing random outlets Id call that a code violation.
So tell me how that is done, don't you dare say 'evenly' :lol: tell me what perimeters the code is requiring we use to distribute this evenly?
As I said, its more relative. Its not set in stone, but Id think common sense would tell us which in the above example meets the intention of the code.
