House circuit list

[green.bubbly]

Planning the electrical circuits for my house. Two bedroom, nothing special house. All circuits are 20A. Any thoughts/suggestions/things I forgot? Sure seems like a lot of circuits...

Receptacles

2 Kitchen counter receptacle circuits
Master Bath receptacles
Spare Bath receptacles
Master Bedroom/Spare Bedroom/Closets receptacles
Living Room/Pantry receptacles
Food/Garbage Disposal
Washer
Dryer
Refrigerator
Microwave
Stove

Lights/Fans

Pantry/Living Room lights/Ceiling Fans (9 100 watt cans and 2 ceiling fans)
Kitchen/Master Bedroom/Spare Bedroom/Closet lights (12 100 watt cans and two ceiling fans)
Master Bath/Spare Bath lights (7 100 watt cans, 1 ceiling fan, 2 vanity lights)


Other

Bath Heater/fan/light
Bath Heater/fan/light
Water Heater
A/C outside unit
A/C inside unit



Future...

Outside receptacles and lights. Upstairs Craft room lights and receptacles and a mini-split AC

 

[pattenp]

Don't forget the whole house surge protection.

Kitchen counter - put receptacles every 3' to 4'. Appliance cords are usually short.

What! No garage.

 

[green.bubbly]

Don't forget the whole house surge protection.

Kitchen counter - put receptacles every 3' to 4'. Appliance cords are usually short.

What! No garage.

Educate me on the whole house surge protection. I see units online from $40.00 to several hundred bucks.

My wife insists that we have PLENTY receptacles!!!

Garage/shop is a seperate and is already wired. It was built first.

 

[pattenp]

Whole house surge protection just seems to be the recommended thing to add these days.

Here's what I got: http://www.leviton.com/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?item=704322&section=28317&minisite=10026

 

[Gooch]

for residential use IMO, a whole house SPD is a waste as they only protect from external surges from the power company and any surge created inside the house is left to do damage. You are better off with a quality SPD at the end use protecting the item desired. Anything with a motor(dryer, clothes washer, dishwasher, garbage disposal, furnace, A/C condenser, etc.) will create a voltage surge that a whole house SPD will be unable to remove.

 

[Naq]

...Anything with a motor(dryer, clothes washer, dishwasher, garbage disposal, furnace, A/C condenser, etc.) will create a voltage surge that a whole house SPD will be unable to remove.

How do they create surges? When they're shut off and stop drawing current?

Regardless, the voltage waveform always originates at the utility transformer or line and must pass through the service entrance panel before being distributed to the loads in the home. Maybe I'm thinking of it incorrectly.

 

[Gooch]

How do they create surges? When they're shut off and stop drawing current?

Regardless, the voltage waveform always originates at the utility transformer or line and must pass through the service entrance panel before being distributed to the loads in the home. Maybe I'm thinking of it incorrectly.

when they are switched off aswell as switched on they will cause transients and effect the sine wave. yes the wave form that is created by the utility has to go through the WHSPD(whole house surge protective device) but provides no protection against any transients created after the WHSPD.

In the US we're lucky enough to have pretty decent power quality. if you put a power quality meter on your service any utility transients probably wouldn't be any worse than the transients created inside, unless of coarse you'd get a lightning strike, at which point, IMO, a WHSPD isn't gonna do a whole lot.