Quote Originally Posted by zombie67 View Post
How to tell what gauge my electrical wiring is? My house was built in 2002, I think. So I thought to look up the codes of the day, to see what the minimum requirement was. But I'm not getting any google love.
At your local hardware/home improvement store, get a short length of 10, 12, 14 and 16 ga wire. Open up an outlet, carefully pull the electrical receptacle out a bit and compare . . . cutting power to the receptacle first is always good. Something like this can help locate the circuit breaker if the main panel is not labeled:

http://www.amazon.com/Extech-CB10-br...reaker+locator

If you don't already have one, you might want one of these to see how many watts or amps are actually being used. Might be useful for balancing load on the house circuits . . . electrical overloads can ruin your day if you have to stop crunching when they turn off the power to your house to put out the fire. On a good day the circuit breaker might trip if overloaded, on a bad day . . . maybe not. Do you know if Murphy worked on your house? I think he was at mine.

http://www.amazon.com/P3-Internation...=P3+watt+meter