OK, lets say I've got this idea of having a single circuit for all the lights on the second floor of my house. That way, if an air conditioner overloads a circuit, or my wife throws the toaster into the shower while I'm in there, none of the lights will go out. I believe it is pretty rare for a light fixture to overload a circuit, although it is possible. But I just thought it would be a cool concept to have a breaker that says, all lights on second floor.
In my house, I think this is doable in that a 15 amp circuit can handle 1440 Watts. 1440 Watts is a hell of a lot of attic. OK, so how do you wire this? I can't imagine that it works to run say six or eight sets of wires from various light fixtures to one box, and one power line. Then try and tie 7 or 9 black wires together and 7 or 9 whites together. I wouldn't think you could twist that many wires together. So, do you just run the power to the first fixture, then jump to the next fixture, and daisy chain your way along, wiring a switch in parallel for each fixture? -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [email protected] Tel: (412) 268-9081
