I was surprised by the 14/2, but the electrician said that's standard for 15 amp lighting runs. So I bought a coil of 14/2 for my garage lights; they really won't draw that much juice. You can put more lights and longer runs on a 20 amp circuit with 12/2 tho. I'm following the electrician's lead and running 12/2 off 20 amp breakers for the outlets and for the 220 outlets for my table saw.

I noticed last night that the outside outlet on one of the garage shear walls is positioned even worse than the light fixtures are. The hole for the box not only has a stud behind it, there are 2x6 horizonatal nailers there as well. It's gonna' be fun chewing through enough wood to install that box and gain access to run the cable into it. I swear, my parents should have named me Hard Way Harry or something. If it were only Murphy's Law that applied, I could still finish these tasks in a reasonable time. It will probably take an entire evening just to install this one damn outlet box. Things like that make me think I'll have to postpone the move-in date by one year.

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