Pete Moss
Active Member
FMJ--never really dealt with thermoelectric devices so can't help ya--sorry...I'm from the KISS school--Keep It Simple Stoopid..
Ganjagoddess, in looking over these posts I just realized that you are gonna protect everything with GFCI so ferget what I said about the cr20s, those are just regular receps. What you want are leviton 7899s--a 20amp GFCI recep. You could put one of those at the start of the run, making sure to put the black and white incoming wires on the 'line' side and the black and white outgoing wires on the 'load' side, and then use the regular cr20s downstream from the GFCI, and that will make all the downstream receps protected by that first one in the stream. It's fine to run more than one recep on each circuit as long as you make sure you don't go over about 24 amps total on the circuit. On all the downstream stuff I would do 'pigtail' wiring where you take the incoming black, the outgoing black, and a 6" pigtail and put them together in a red wire nut and then use that pigtail for that recep, doing the same with the white wires. Just make sure everything is tight--looseness is what causes fires. Good luck and be safe! Especially when you go to hooking it all up in the panel--find the breaker that controls that and turn it off before putting your hands(or any other part!) in there. Everybody should have a cheap little device called a voltage tic that is just a plastic pen-looking device that will tell you if a wire is hot or not with a beeper and light just by touching the wire, insulation still on or not.
Ganjagoddess, in looking over these posts I just realized that you are gonna protect everything with GFCI so ferget what I said about the cr20s, those are just regular receps. What you want are leviton 7899s--a 20amp GFCI recep. You could put one of those at the start of the run, making sure to put the black and white incoming wires on the 'line' side and the black and white outgoing wires on the 'load' side, and then use the regular cr20s downstream from the GFCI, and that will make all the downstream receps protected by that first one in the stream. It's fine to run more than one recep on each circuit as long as you make sure you don't go over about 24 amps total on the circuit. On all the downstream stuff I would do 'pigtail' wiring where you take the incoming black, the outgoing black, and a 6" pigtail and put them together in a red wire nut and then use that pigtail for that recep, doing the same with the white wires. Just make sure everything is tight--looseness is what causes fires. Good luck and be safe! Especially when you go to hooking it all up in the panel--find the breaker that controls that and turn it off before putting your hands(or any other part!) in there. Everybody should have a cheap little device called a voltage tic that is just a plastic pen-looking device that will tell you if a wire is hot or not with a beeper and light just by touching the wire, insulation still on or not.