Yep
One cable up to the attic and to the first light junction box in the loop. Then
on to the next and next and so on. You might want two light circuits or maybe a
double switched light on the stairs so that should one circuit go out there is
still some light up there. Then you just drop a line from a room's light
junction box to the switch.
It is more usual to wire a room or two per circuit, that is, the light and
plugs in one or two bedrooms on one circuit and maybe the bathroom and the
other bedroom on another circuit but that has a lot to do with convenience when
they are pulling cable in a new construction.
Unless you are running heating equipment usually the main issues up stairs will
be a curling iron, clothes iron and blow drier. Once your daughter becomes a
teenager two blow dryers. consider that as you plan your wiring. Usually it
will be bathrooms where those devices are used but they do draw the better part
of the capacity of a circuit and you probably want to avoid two running on the
same circuit at the same time.
Hope this helps.
If I was Han Solo I'd probably pet my wookie
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Rossi
To: Blind Handyman List
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 9:56 AM
Subject: [BlindHandyMan] How many connections are feasible.
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?
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Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
Carnegie Mellon University.
E-Mail: [email protected]
Tel: (412) 268-9081
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