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Old 10-03-2009, 09:37 PM
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Does code allow you to install 15A receptacles on a 20A circuit? The 20A plugs all have the one prong as a "T".

I can see the argument for ripping out the 14AWG wire and putting in 12AWG instead but the cost of all the incidentals: the breakers, the plugs, the GFCI that would have to replaced with their 20A counterparts (and then I'm sitting on all these 15A components that I can't return anymore to boot) alone makes the swap out proposition cost well into the hundreds of dollars. I have 4 circuits planned each with a GFCI then a 4-gang box with the plugs (although one plug is a duplex with a shutoff switch). I really want to find a way I can make this tank room workable but using 15A breakers and 14AWG.
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