This is inspired by another question, plus something I saw in my panel.
I found that we have 10/2 run to an outside area where once was to be a outdoor kitchen. It was removed, and only some lights installed instead, and at the exterior 14/2 was spliced into the 10/2.
Some electrician at some point fixed this in a way that I think is legal but am now curious. The 10/2 enters the panel and there the white and bare go to the terminal strips, the black is connected to a black 14 guage wire (with a wire nut) going to a 15A breaker.
In interpreted this as their way of indicating that somewhere on that branch circuit is 14 guage wire, so no one owuld connect it to a 30A break based on the size of the wire entering the panel.
But it seems a bit hokey also. Setting aside whether it was well done -- is it up to NEC code?
I assume the alternative is a separate subpanel breaking out to two 15A breakers to join the 14G wire, somewhere "out there" instead of just a splice, but is it required?
I found that we have 10/2 run to an outside area where once was to be a outdoor kitchen. It was removed, and only some lights installed instead, and at the exterior 14/2 was spliced into the 10/2.
Some electrician at some point fixed this in a way that I think is legal but am now curious. The 10/2 enters the panel and there the white and bare go to the terminal strips, the black is connected to a black 14 guage wire (with a wire nut) going to a 15A breaker.
In interpreted this as their way of indicating that somewhere on that branch circuit is 14 guage wire, so no one owuld connect it to a 30A break based on the size of the wire entering the panel.
But it seems a bit hokey also. Setting aside whether it was well done -- is it up to NEC code?
I assume the alternative is a separate subpanel breaking out to two 15A breakers to join the 14G wire, somewhere "out there" instead of just a splice, but is it required?
