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jay_mald t1_j1v7twq wrote

If it was me, (coming from a licensed electrician) I would wire the outlets and switches/lighting separately. Meaning one circuit home run for your outlets, and one circuit for your lighting. This way, when you go to inevitably open something up later on, you don’t have to kill all your lighting to service an outlet. Also you only really need 14/2 for your lighting, 12/2 for the outlets is normal. 3 wire for any 3 ways obviously.

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fatherfirst35 OP t1_j1vd7de wrote

I totally understand the recommendation of wiring separately part, as well as the 12/14 part. I had a large 12/2 roll and the rec area is going to have some higher loads on it so I just figured I'd do it all in 12. I was going to also wire the bedroom, bathroom, and rec areas on separate breakers since the rec area has larger load and I have plenty of room in my box. That is why I was going to wire the lights together with the outlets. There will be a ceiling fan/light in the bedroom, a recessed light in the bedroom closet, a vanity light in the bathroom and 6 other recessed lights in the rec area. Would you instead wire the closet, ceiling fan/light, and rec area lights together? The rec area outlets will still have to be separate, there will be a fair amount of use on that 20 amp breaker.

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jay_mald t1_j1vevpe wrote

Yes I would wire the lighting together, barring any setbacks regarding overloading the circuit with too many lights. But if you’re going to wire it in 12 AWG then 1 20A circuit for those should be enough. Hard to imagine you’d have too many lights to trip a 20A breaker.

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jay_mald t1_j1vexar wrote

Could also do it room by room but unsure of how much space you are working with.

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CbackNstomach t1_j1vz802 wrote

I read somewhere I think it was NEC that you can only have five outlets/switches on a 15 amp breaker and eight on a 20 amp breaker.

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