Did I do it right?
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Did I do it right?
Origonally both bathrooms in my house was wired to a single GFCI breaker. This caused problem especially when both my wife and daughter would be in the bathrooms using thier blow driers, the breaker would always trrip.
In the attic both bathroom were tied to the feed from the panel in a j box.
To fix the problem I installedanother breaker in the panel and ran another cable to the octagonal box in the attic, seperated the splice connecting the two bathrooms together and placed them on seperate circuits.
The main point I am interested in is that I did all this work in the one pre-existing junction box. IS this OK?
Jimmie
In the attic both bathroom were tied to the feed from the panel in a j box.
To fix the problem I installedanother breaker in the panel and ran another cable to the octagonal box in the attic, seperated the splice connecting the two bathrooms together and placed them on seperate circuits.
The main point I am interested in is that I did all this work in the one pre-existing junction box. IS this OK?
Jimmie
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Most likely. You are allowed to have two circuits in the same jbox, so that isn't an issue. You just need to be sure that you have two 20amp circuits (using 12/2 w/g wires - currently sold as yellow jacketed) feeding into the box. You could have fed both receptacles on one 20 amp, provided the lights and fan were coming from somewhere else. Just make sure that either the breakers or the receptacles are GFI.
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OK the cables coming from the panel were already labeled with the breaker numbers. Now I have a label on the outside of the box saying there is two power sources. Also there were labels telling where they go. I love my label maker.
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if you have two circuits in a box them MUST both be clearly identified and the box labaeld as TWO POWER SOURCES
Thanks for the clarification.
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There is no code requirement to label junction boxes as has been suggested. It is a good idea. A better idea (in my opinion) would have been to install a second junction box and separate the circuits entirely.
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The code book does not tell us what we do not have to do. It is not a design manual. It is a rule book. It tells us what we do need to do. So, if the code does not mention it, then it is ok.
The code does have several sections that require labels for more than one source. Equipment, Motors, Heaters, Control Cabinents etc.
There is no such requirement for junction boxes.