It's me again, trying to finalize my packet to submit in an effort to get my permit which will include a complete rewire for this fixer-upper in addition to several other projects. Once again, life has dealt me a couple of delays, but I'm almost there and now that my wife has relented and let me advertise for a coed to occasionally watch my toddler, the delays should get fewer and further, between. As I said in my last post, I've got four more questions, two of which will be contained in this message and I'll separate the others out into individual threads to better serve the forum search and because one is fairly deep into the theoretical. All help on any of these matters would be deeply appreciated. 1) I am planning to install a small electric water heater in the crawlspace between two of the baths; I am also planning to hardwire one of those Intermatic Water Heater Timers to the setup, but instead of having the timer under the house, I would like to put it in my wiring closet or distribution center; Is there any part of code or reality which would prevent me from installing the timer at the "head of the run"? 2) I am also planning to install some outlets in a few non-kitchen, built-in cabinets; I am under the impression that code will require me to build a fake wall around the outlets to make them flush, or is there a special box I can use? Would the cable need to be piped in EMT? Is there anything wrong with any of these scenarios? As a follow-up to that last question; I am going to be hooking equipment to these outlets that one would ordinarily want to connect through a surge protector; This equipment will be permanently installed in so much as once it is in place, it will never move, though it could, it just won't. In a previous thread, John mentioned that one should ignore the info about isolated grounds in the B&D book, but if I operate under alternate instructions; Would it be incorrect to assume that it would serve the same purpose as a surge protector? Do electricians have their computers plugged into an orange outlet, or do they use a surge protector? I realize that you can buy protectors which are the same sized and would only cover the outlet; I already have a few from TI; But, I'm trying to do this the cleanest and least costly way, available; So any thoughts on the matter would be appreciated. Thanks in Advance; R

Hi- My village says that I have to have an outlet every 12 feet, pretty standard. I understand how to compute a circuit using volts x amps = watts. However, there are going to be many, many outlets in my basement that simply are probably never going to be used for anything, and will only be there just to meet code. How may rarely used outlets am I allowed to have on one 20 amp circuit? I don't know how to figure this out as they will probably never carry a load. Thanks, Steve