Actually, he is correct. While at the Home Depot, I checked it out. Only
GE offers this odd setup but they really do have single unit 2 pole
breakers. In order to use it however, it requires removing two standard
breakers ( if the panel is full) as it sits between where the two standard
ones fit. To fill in the gaps you will need to buy two half size breakers
but on the positive side, by doing that you will get your 220V circuit
WITHOUT losing any of your 110's and you get a spare full size breaker (in
case one fails, LOL) as well.

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TBone wrote:
I know what you are talking about at HD but IIRC, none of them support
220V
but I could be wrong. In order for that to happen, the double half
sized
breaker would need to come in contact with both poles and I am unaware
of
any box that would support that or how it could even be done unless the
box
has slots reserved for only that type of breaker. All of the double
single
slot breakers I've seen just give you two 110V circuits in the space of
1
but they are both on the same pole. I have to go to HD later and now
you
have me curious so I will head to the electrical department to check
that
out.

I think he's talking about a quad breaker. You can run four 110v, two
110v
and a 220v, or two 220v circuits off a two slot quad breaker.

In the case he is discussing, it is a half, two halves tied together for
a 220, and another half. The center two halves do take up a "single slot
space", the catch is you need to have a half above and below it because
it needs to span two poles.