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This topic provides the rules for connecting electrical items in a daisy-chain pattern.

It is possible to connect a number of electrical items in a daisy-chain pattern. You connect electrical items in a daisy- chain pattern by dragging an item to another item of the same type from the Electrical Index to the Electrical Engineer or within the Electrical Engineer. You can connect the following items in a daisy-chain pattern:

Loads

Drag a load associated with a cable to another load in the Electrical Engineer.

Heat traces

Drag a heat trace to another heat trace in the Electrical Engineer. You can also drag a heat trace to a junction box or a circuit in a junction box. Heat traces and miscellaneous electrical equipment items do not require associated cables to make daisy-chain connections.

Miscellaneous electrical equipment items

Drag a socket outlet, lighting fixture, welding outlet, and so forth to another item belonging to the Miscellaneous Electrical Equipment type. Also, you can drag an item belonging to the Miscellaneous Electrical Equipment type to a junction box but not to a junction box circuit.

Junction boxes

Drag a junction box (but not its circuit) to a heat trace or to an item belonging to the Miscellaneous Electrical Equipment type. There is no need for a cable to be associated with a junction box.

  • On the Batch Load Association dialog, the software displays items connected in a daisy-chain pattern as if they are all connected in a parallel pattern. The software handles both parallel and daisy-chain connections in the same way.

  • On the Common Properties dialog, items connected in a daisy-chain pattern appear as if they are fed from the same feeder circuit.

  • You cannot drag loads that are connected in a daisy-chain pattern to the same circuit to create a parallel connection. However, you can drag them to other circuits.