check your ampacity tables for wire gauge. Then check the listings for luminaries. Find one that uses 12 AWG. When you do, install away. 12 AWG is the minimum allowable conductor in a 20 amp circuit (I referenced the ampacity tables friend, don't know why you can't read an entire paragraph).
Just as you're NOT ALLOWED to pigtail 15 amp receptacles with 20 amp flow-thru on a 20 amp circuit with 14 AWG, (12 AWG minimum).
I said the restriction was for either circuit (1440 va). The requirement to rate luminaires as demand loads is elsewhere as is the requirements for wire gauges used in circuits based on ampacity as well as other tables for derating, temperature, etc.
I can't help that you rely on non-consensus non-authoritative guides instead of the actual code.
Because you can't read the entirety of a post, I won't bother responding to YOU again. You obviously can't comprehend more than ONE SIMPLE thought at a time, I mentioned four areas of the code, not one. As much as been re-codified with 2005 and I don't have to work with it yet (by the way if you have a first edition lots of errata hope you got the correction sheet) as my AHJ uses 2002. and the citations greatly differ as to tables and sections cross referenced.
from my previous post: "cross reference the ampacity tables, etc. for 18 and 16 AWG and the answer becomes clear regards to a combination circuit with luminaires not being allowed to be 20 amps.". |
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