Stormin Mormon wrote:
Well, supposing I'm running a space heater (15 amps) on the black
wire and the bare wire. And running a hair dryer (14 amps) on the
white wire and the bare wire. That's 29amps in a bare piece of 12 ga.

How would you wire it differently?

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Christopher A. Young
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If the space heater is on one phase and the hair dryer is on the other
phase that neutral (bare or otherwise) is carrying one amp. Of course that
means it is live and can produce injury and can be shorted out to ground.
Which is why you can use the same size wire and why it should never be
treated as a ground wire.

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"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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In article , "Stormin
Mormon" wrote:
With two hots and one neutral, you'd be possible to overheat the
neutral in a big way.

Not if they're connected properly.

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Joseph Meehan

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