Does everything here look and sound OK?

[franksinatra]

I ran a 100amp subpanel to my garage sometime back and Im finally getting to the wiring. Heres what I have. Two breakers, each running 5 dual gang boxes (10 outlets) for each side of the garage. I have wired them with 12-2 for 20 amp circuits (correct term?) I would like to know if I can just hook up the grounds on the line in and the line out (Picture) or am I supposed to pigtail from each receptacle to line in line out, combining 4 grounds?
Second question. The homeowner before me ran 2 15 amp outlets to the outside of the house and connected the 2 garage door openers to it. These are the only things on the 15 amp breaker. Is this ok? Do I need to worry about adding a GFI?
Finally I would like to know if everything in my subpanel looks OK. I thought I remember someone saying that the grounds in a panel shouldnt be split up but my electrician said it would be OK. I want the box as clean looking as possible so If anyone has any suggestions on how it could be cleaned up, please let me know. Oh, one more thing are the plastic romex connectors what everyone is using now? I still need a metal one for my 6-3 220 line correct? Thanks, G

 

[JasonR]

You should run pig tails across the outlets. If you do them like you have in your picture your pulling the load across the breakable tab on the outlet. The reason for the "tab" is if you wanted to switch the bottom or top of the outlet sepperatly you would break it and essentially have the top always hot and the bottom switched for a lamp or visa-versa.

Jason

 

[Charles (in GA)]

Jason is correct. You have used the back wire type receptacle that the screw and serrated plate capture the wire, an excellent design, but you need the wires out of the box captured under the same screw as the incoming wire, this effectively splices them together. The run a jumper from the receptacle to the other receptacle.

There should be eight holes for wire on the back, two for each screw. Put both the in and out wires under one screw. Its just a matter of swapping wires. What you have will work, but it pushes the current thru two different break away tabs just to get to the next box then the same thing again. The tabs are supposed to carry the current, but they are pre scored and are the weak link in this.

Charles

 

[Falcon67]

Looks like you are also missing the grounding (bare) conductor running to each outlet.

 

[franksinatra]

Im hoping I understood you guys correctly. Does this look correct?

 

[Falcon67]

Looks OK to me.

 

[franksinatra]

Thanks. Now I need to redoe 12 others. lol

 

[Falcon67]

So it goes - better safe, etc. Good thing - once done and checked, should be good for a long time.