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    Aug 17, 2012, 12:43 PM
    Bathroom receptacles
    TK - Stan:

    I have been doing some studying on the 2011 code release and I ran into a question that the answer key indicated that I was incorrect, Can you imagine that, an Irishman making a mistake!

    Anyway the question had to do with bathroom receptales. The question said that the bathroom receptacles branch circuit can feed other equipmenr or devices within the bathroom and that it can feed multiple bathroom receptacles.

    According the 2011 Code, at least as I read it, bathroom receptacles cannot have any other outlets on the branch circuit. So the way I understand that restriction that basically the branch circuit to a bathroom receptacle is now an individual branch circuirt, with the exception of a branch circuit supplying other outlets within the samew bathroom.

    The section of code was not highlightedso it is not a new change.

    Prior to reading this I was under the impression that a 20 branch circuit could serve the receptacles in multiple bathrooms but not if it also serves other loads within a bathroom.
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    Aug 17, 2012, 01:20 PM
    The way I understand this code is that the lighting and bathroom receptacle can be fed from the same breaker only if it is one individual bathroom. If you have more than one bathroom, you can either have all your bathroom receptacles together with nothing else or have each individual bathroom on it's own breaker, then you can have the receptacle and lights together.
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    Aug 17, 2012, 02:10 PM
    My bad!

    I forgot to add the NEC citation. 2011, 210.11(C)(3).

    More wiskey, I need more wiskey!

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