Jim Dunmyer wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 >RW> hair dryer will pop the breaker.  Then you stand there wet in a 
 >RW> dark, cold bathroom wishing there was someone else home so they 
 >RW> could reset it.  Been there.
 > 
 > And all it takes is one experience of this sort,  and what does 
 > one do?  Why, use an extension cord,  of course,  so that you 
 > don't have the two appliances on the same circuit.
 > 
 > I'd like to see a place wired with adjacent outlets on 
 > different circuits.
 JD> Roy,
 JD>  Your point is good, but:
 JD> I like to never have an outlet on a lighting circuit. That way, 
 JD> an overload never puts me in the dark.
That's a good point as well.
 JD> And it's not *necessarily* a good idea to have adjacent outlets 
 JD> on different circuits. If you have 2 appliances plugged into 
 JD> those outlets, neither grounded properly, and both shorted, you 
 JD> get 240 volts between them. Touching both simultaneously can be 
 JD> deadly.
 JD> And don't say, "Well, that'd never happen."
Oh,  I can see where that could possibly happen,  but I don't know if I'd 
make it a major point of concern.
--- 
---------------