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arthurhardman
Joined: 01 Oct 2004
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Location: rhode island
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 Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 3:28 pm Post subject: Adding curcuit breakers and circuits |
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| I hooked up two new circuit breakers with three wire romex, red, black white and ground. This meant a common white wire for both circuits. Will this work? |
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b
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Location: michigan
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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hi arthur,
I do not advise sharing a nuetral on a residential circuit. The nuetral carries the imbalance of the load. This is possible if the circuits are on different phases, but the possibility of someone else coming in behind you without the theory of electric and changing it can overload the nuetral wire. You also do not want the 220V potential at your 110V device. Possible - yes... Advisable - no. Wire is affordable... run two 12-2 wires (wire size dependant on the amperage of the circuit) instead.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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computer glitch submitted numerous times
Last edited by b on Sun Oct 03, 2004 9:41 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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| computer glitch submitted numerous times. |
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