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Originally Posted by sourdough
This, or something like this, may be where old soldier got the part about light fixtures;
https://www.cerrowire.com/products/r...ations-charts/
If so, just go down to the next portion and it says that 14ga. wire will carry 15A. That is a LOT of light bulbs, especially LED. My take is that the wire carries 15A of "whatever", the first section is just a generalization of uses for it. |
Yup. In every RV that has a gas/electric refrigerator and/or a gas/electric water heater, there's "heating appliances on 14 gauge ROMEX"... They are all built to RVIA standards with solid core ROMEX used in heating circuits.
Then, any RV that has a dishwasher or a washer/dryer has even more "heating circuits" powered by solid core ROMEX.
I agree. 15 amps is 15 amps, doesn't matter if it's a resistive heater core or a bunch of resistive bulb filaments or a bunch of LED circuits. The wire doesn't know what is the end "amp user" it only knows that it's carrying 1 amp or 15 amps and the molecules of copper will expand/contract based on the heat generated within the wire from "amp flow" not from "what's connected to the end of the wires".....