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Re:We need a lot more electricians if we’re going to electri... by sbradford26 on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @12:29PM (#34341286)
Yeah the main relationship that matters is the breaker to wire.

There is a fun semi related thing. Can you put 15 amp outlets on a 20 amp circuit? The answer is yes you can, but only if there is at least two receptacles, and a standard duplex outlet counts at two receptacles.

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Re:We need a lot more electricians if we’re going to electri... by bombcar on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @02:03PM (#34342903)
Which is another reason you don't want to oversize a breaker; you can have ten, twenty two-receptacle outlets on a single circuit, and if lots of stuff was plugged in you could easily draw tens or hundreds of amps, which would melt normal Romex pretty quickly.
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