Re: Switched Din. Rm. Outlet?
Originally posted by jwelectric:
...210.52 (B) (1) exception 1 nor 210.52 (B) (2) with exceptions.
If you can explain these away I will jump the fence.
210.52(B)(1) requires all receptacles in the eating areas to be on a SA circuit. Therefore this switched receptacle on the SA circuit complies with that reference. I don't need to reference an exception to this code. Why would you have to justify the presence of a required receptacle?
If you stray from a rule, you need an exception to keep it legal. Agreed?
Therefore, if you
choose to install a 15-amp receptacle for the same purpose, you have to be given an
exception from the
rule to do so. Without that exception, what would you be left with? A dining room with no lighting outlet (which is okay by 210.70's exception) requiring a switched receptacle. Without the exception, you would be
required to use the SA circuit. As it stands, you are
required to use the SA circuit, but you are allowed an exception for the purpose outlined in 210.70.
As for 210.52(B)(2): I'm rethinking how to word this, other than, there are no other outlets. The SA circuit is for receptacles in eating areas. This is a receptacle in an eating area. Compliant.
Again, it's the belief "that a switched receptacle is a lighting outlet" that's causing all this controversy. If you believe my last argument that this is not true, the rest should fall into place. Jump the fence, JW!
Edit: For 210.52(B)(2)'s exceptions. I have no need for using them, to make that clear again. They do provide clues, though, and I know that's what you're getting at.
Since 210.52(B)(1) states that wall, counter and floor receptacles are to be fed from the SA circuits, my best offering for these exceptions in (B)(2) is that the receptacles listed in exception 2 might no be considered wall/counter/floor outlets due to the fact that they are concealed behind a range. They are for an appliance that is all but fixed in place, with could constitute a violation, as that is definutely not a small appliance, regardless of it's small load. So, an exception is included to allow that small load.
To use that exception in analogy to our situation confirms my case. A range is a large appliance, regardless of load, and a freestanding cord-and-plug connected lamp is definutely not. And that these small loads are considered acceptable from the SA's standpoint, that confirms that
even if you were to consider the lamp to weigh 100 pounds, it's small load would be permissible on the SA circuit.
But again, that's assuming a lamp would get plugged into it in the first place. An assumption that 210.70(A)(1) exception 1 never explicitly states. We make that assumption, the code doesn't.
[ April 07, 2005, 11:59 PM: Message edited by: georgestolz ]
