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RE: Direct burial cable

To: "cornerexit" <cornerexit@gmail.com>, <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Direct burial cable
From: "Mullen, Tim \(IIS\)" <Tim.Mullen@ngc.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:37:32 -0400
cornerexit wrote:
> 
> 2 double duplex gfci, and 1 single duplex gfci out-door 
> outlets to run small pond pumps.
> <...>
> In one case the circuit will go out to an outlet and then 
> come back in the same trench, make a turn and go to another 
> outlet.

First, why not get a single GFCI plug as the first outlet on the
circuit, and then run all the others from it?  Some GFCIs are designed
to act as the "master" for all the "downstream" outlets.

Second, why would you run a circuit "down and back'?   Why not run the
circuit to one box, and branch out in two directions?  The outlets
should all connected in parallel, not series (except the first GFCI), so
why run twice as much cable as needed.

Tim Mullen

Chantilly, VA 






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