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Bet that cut into your profit.

Yes, "I've seen 'em blow!"

Especially back in my film electrician days, which is all about temporary power distribution. That stuff was hairy.

For the OP, I don't think he can calculate those loads, and as I wrote, who knows if his house is wired with 3 wire circuits? Is he suddenly going to be muddling neutrals? Me, I would rather put...

JW says you are off the hook, so I say do it his way.

Still, the OP should follow my path. Especially if he is an amateur who does not understand a 3 wire circuit. In which case he is well...

You speak wisdom, Obi Wan. Actually, not much that is designed for 120v much likes 240v.

I'm pretty sure that if two incandescent lights are on either side of the phase, sharing a neutral, and I have disconnected the neutral and the hots, that I will find a path down one hot, thru a...

The manufacturer is not bound by the code the way we are.

The cords on the various things you plug into a 20 amp general purpose circuit are not 12 ga, are they? They are large enough for the...

Label all the wires so that I can put it back together the way it started.....

Disconnect everything.

Leave all the lights in the house on (to ensure a path from the hot to the neutral).

And...

One of the jobs that clips over the wire, a non-contact?

That is bad form. If a circuit runs to a panel, it should get its own breaker. Absolutely one does not put two wires under the same screw. If the house is wired with two wire circuits and no...

You "believe" it is a 200 amp panel?

Is it actually a "fuse" panel or is it a breaker panel?

Is there a master breaker that would shut off all the power going out of the panel with one motion...

I'm going to be replacing an old surface mounted 100amp combination panel that replaced a much older panel many years ago.

The owner tells me that the house is wired with cloth and rubber, but all...

Sorry, wrong place.

"The maximum wire size to connect the pump motor is 16 gauge"

If the pump comes from the manufacturer with 16 ga, you can wire that to the relay. But you cannot use any 16 ga anywhere else in...

I'm pretty good at patching drywall.

My current inclination is to use a three gang masonry box. I will figure out how far from the opposite drywall it would fall to be flush with the face of...

Here's one that is new on me:

Just walked thru a modest job that requires replacing two 4"sq boxes with three gang.

Apparently the building is built of steel studs.

I want to do the least...

You can also save lots of space by daisy-chaining the common hot and the ground. One wire long enough to go from one switch to the next, with enough insulation removed to wrap around a screw. ...

You can also save lots of wire by daisy-chaining the common hot and the ground. One wire long enough to go from one switch to the next, with enough insulation removed to wrap around a screw. Not...

No kidding. Why bother otherwise?

Actually, there is an evil genius in that. The hall is quite long.....without an outlet. What would be SO cool is that I could lift the power from the lights in the bath. Ooohh. I feel some...

I got into the property today. The vanity receptacle and the lights are on two different circuits, the vanity conduit passes nowhere near the light switch.

The fan/light combo in the shower stall, which the manufacturer and my inspector want to have on a gfi.

My inspector is ok with me using the vanity gfi for this, now I just need to get up in the...

Right after I start to lay golden eggs.

It never hurts to ask.....but yes, I think you are correct on that one.

The inspector will insist on Arc Fault with any new circuits.