TwistItUp
Well-Known Member
Technically that might not be safe having the 20 in there if the wire is only rated for a 15 amp circuit. Why In one of those posts before I said to have the electrician look at the wiring to see if it could handle 20 amp. If it is the larger gauge wire I would say go 20 amp everything, you can do that yourself pretty easy. If the wire is smaller gauge rated for 15 amps, then you should stick with 15 amps. For my electrical I just assume the wire is rated for it because the breaker is 20 amp. I started having issues back when I went to swat a fly but I hit a pull chain for a ceiling fan that was running. The chain flicked up in the motor and bound it up. This popped my GFI. I didn't think to check it, those rooms on the back side of the house that I said all shared that 20 amp breaker. All these rooms had no power for two weeks. Till finally a friend had an electrician come take a look, he only looked in the panel. Then he told me to go check all the wires in the receptacles and see if one of the wires popped off the back. So I start on the south side of the house, working my way along the west side towards the north side. The last receptacle that I check had the GFI. All I had to do was push the button. Grrrr I was pissed. But ever since then that GFI has been popping but got progressively worse after adding grow equipment. Change the light switch from 15 amp to 20 amp and everything is fine. I also changed the GFI too because when I popped it with the test my ceiling fan and all the other rooms would lose power, But things plugged into this GFI socked would still work. The new GFI if I push test nothing gets power, so I think that's cured. Think it ran me like $50 for a 15/20 amp light switch, 20 amp GFI, and 20 amp receptacle without GFI.Ok $105.00 later, let me be Stanley stupid for the lesson. I live in a split level home, rooms down stairs, living room and kitchen master bedroom all up stairs. The grow was plugged in the garage on those outlets sharing breaker with the bathrooms. The gfci plug, the ones that say test/reset on them. Yeah. That little bastard in the bathroom we never use tripped as well, everything else on that breaker was down stream from that plug. Once that plug was reset everything was fine. So I paid $65.00 for some one to come push a button in. I had him replace the 15 amp with a 20 since he was already here. The 15 amp was fine no damage. What a load of horse shit. LOL oh well, time to smoke a bowl and do some yoga. So I learned how to change out a breaker and how to plan out my electrical usage better, pretty fuckin expensive lesson.
