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I found out today that for new construction in 09 the NEC 08 rules say you need to use tamper resistant outlet receptacles, the ones with the little door over the plug blade holes. One bummer is the nice 20A receptacles are $2 or less, the 20A receptacles with the tamper doors on them are $7 or...

I come into a receptacle box with 20A power, 12-2 w ground. I want to branch here and go two directions with the power. With the screw-on-the-side-only 20A receptacles I would have to pigtail a joint so as to not have three wires screwed to two screws on each side of the plug. However, I...

Hi, This web site is awesome. I am building a garage workshop, I have a bunch of questions to ask, and pictures to post. Every time I come to this web site I spend 3-4 hours. I am torn - these are hours I should be working on building my new shop, but I spend them instead reading about...