Mark Lloyd wrote:
On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 15:46:40 GMT, "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.



That's 1A in the neutral if they're on opposite phases. However, how
are you going to make sure noone ever moves a breaker wrong, butting
them on the same phase and making it 29A?


How would you wire it differently?

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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.

Any feeder or branch circuit that supplies loads that are connected to
two or three ungrounded conductors must be protected by common trip
breakers or breakers equipped with listed handle ties. To disarrange
the circuit you would have to move at least one of the conductors to a
different breaker rather than just moving the breaker and that isn't
very likely.
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for general use." Thomas Alva Edison