Toe kick electrical, which circuit?

langless28

Talked to my plumber today, the toe kick heater I am using draws like .5A and does NOT need a dedicated circuit. My question is which circuit (all will be new and to code) should I use to feed the toe kick? Nothing else can be on the two small appliance BC right? I was thinking either the 15A fridge circuit or 20A DW/GD circuit?

Also my lighting circuit will be 8x 5" cans, and some low voltage under cabinet lighting. I want to use up my 14 ga wire so are there any pros to just using 12 gauge on the light circuit?

Speedy Petey

I usually add them to a lighting circuit because of the super low draw.

No reason to use #12 for residential lighting. Most of the ones I run are #14 on 15A.

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Code05

Heater cannot be on fridge circuit.

AllanJ

Are you sure it draws only half an ampere? If it really draws, say, five amperes, it can still be hard wired into a lighting circuit but do add up the amperages or wattages of the lights again to be sure you don't overload the circuit.

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Speedy Petey

The air over water units have just a tiny fractional HP blower motor.

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