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Remodeling my kitchen.
However, I do have an electrician coming to install a sub panel in the basement, I am doing the prep work.
Question, strictly NEC;
Can a 15A kitchen lighting only, branch circuit, (drawing less than 600 watts) be used to power a couple of outdoor porch lights and a flood light, (about 350w)?
This is a new circuit. The other existing 15A lighting circuit shares an upstairs bedroom.
There lies my confusion. Of course that was installed in 1958.
I'm not worried about the draw, just if the sharing is allowed.
Since we're on the subject of sharing, while I had the other wall open I added a second 20A circuit to a new laundry room wall recepticle, on a wall that had nothing on it and then shot the cable back to the basement. It will probably never be used as it is on an open wall between the back door and the door to the garage.
The laundry already had a dedicated 20A for the washer and a 30A hard wired dryer.
May I add a receptacle in the basement? Or it there no sharing at all, even on a second circuit?
Thanks for any feedback, but if I'm out of line, could someone please direct me to the DIY Forum, I couldn't find the link.
Thanks again,
D.
Remodeling my kitchen.
However, I do have an electrician coming to install a sub panel in the basement, I am doing the prep work.
Question, strictly NEC;
Can a 15A kitchen lighting only, branch circuit, (drawing less than 600 watts) be used to power a couple of outdoor porch lights and a flood light, (about 350w)?
This is a new circuit. The other existing 15A lighting circuit shares an upstairs bedroom.
There lies my confusion. Of course that was installed in 1958.
I'm not worried about the draw, just if the sharing is allowed.
Since we're on the subject of sharing, while I had the other wall open I added a second 20A circuit to a new laundry room wall recepticle, on a wall that had nothing on it and then shot the cable back to the basement. It will probably never be used as it is on an open wall between the back door and the door to the garage.
The laundry already had a dedicated 20A for the washer and a 30A hard wired dryer.
May I add a receptacle in the basement? Or it there no sharing at all, even on a second circuit?
Thanks for any feedback, but if I'm out of line, could someone please direct me to the DIY Forum, I couldn't find the link.
Thanks again,
D.