sparkyjr55
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- louisville, ky
I have a question if i can ask it. I had a Electric job inspected today in Louisville, Ky. As i am a small time elec contractor and i do the work. I installed a 12/2 romex from the main breaker panel to the first box, a lighting circuit, I ran this wire 12/2 through about 60 feet of attic space. So i then at the first box downsized to a 14/2 romex. And i plan on installing a 15 amp breaker in the panel.
At first the electrical inspector said i could not do this as somebody might in future years install a 20 amp breaker. I told him i was writing a little tag to install on the wire saying it was only to be installed with a 15 amp breaker.
He after looking at the small room addition job passed it and said just don,t do it again.
Am i wrong to think this is stupid. Is it anywhere in the elec code about this? Or am i the stupid one?
I thought about sending this into the NEC today to write in a passage in the NEC next addition saying this is permissible.
At first the electrical inspector said i could not do this as somebody might in future years install a 20 amp breaker. I told him i was writing a little tag to install on the wire saying it was only to be installed with a 15 amp breaker.
He after looking at the small room addition job passed it and said just don,t do it again.
Am i wrong to think this is stupid. Is it anywhere in the elec code about this? Or am i the stupid one?
I thought about sending this into the NEC today to write in a passage in the NEC next addition saying this is permissible.