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   / Home electrical question #11  
I am not an electrician, but I thought you never use romex inside a conduit?
Correct. Either UF or THHN is acceptable, romex is not. Buried conduit is considered "wet location".
 
   / Home electrical question #12  
I'm trying to picture this in my head. where is the plainer gonna be vs the range plug vs the breaker panel
 
   / Home electrical question #13  
I was under the impression that a circuit breaker is sized to protect the wire between the breaker and the outlet.

Doug in SW IA
 
   / Home electrical question #14  
I was under the impression that a circuit breaker is sized to protect the wire between the breaker and the outlet.

Doug in SW IA
Yes, it is.

I believe that what @MAX-24-Dean is describing is "20A breaker to 12ga short wire to split bolt to the 8ga wire (50A wire) to the outlet", so the 20A breaker protects the 12ga pigtail, and the rest of the wiring is a low resistance/low loss wire, with no chance of being overloaded by the upstream 20A breaker.

(I had to read it twice myself.)

All the best,

Peter
 
   / Home electrical question #15  
Yes, it is.

I believe that what @MAX-24-Dean is describing is "20A breaker to 12ga short wire to split bolt to the 8ga wire (50A wire) to the outlet", so the 20A breaker protects the 12ga pigtail, and the rest of the wiring is a low resistance/low loss wire, with no chance of being overloaded by the upstream 20A breaker.

(I had to read it twice myself.)

All the best,

Peter
Thanks for the clarification, I edited the original post to hopefully make it easier to understand for anyone that looks at this later.
Dean
 
   / Home electrical question #16  
@MAX-24-Dean thanks for the suggestion and the edit!
(I'm glad that I didn't mess up your suggestion.)

All the best,

Peter
 

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