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Art Greenberg
 
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Default 12-3 Double Circuit Run Length - Should I Split the Circuit?

On Thu, 18 May 2006 04:22:16 GMT, Toller wrote:

If all the heavy stuff will be on one of the 125' circuits, you wouldn't
gain anything that way; it will still be too much and too long.
You have to get the following right, or you risk burning your house down.
No joke; don't do it unless you are darned sure you are doing it correctly.
A multiwire circuit is essentially a 240v circuit split between two 120v
circuits. If you can get the two circuits reasonably balanced, the only
current coming back on the neutral is the difference between the two; so
there is little or no voltage drop on the neutral which reduces the total
voltage drop.


Bzzzt! Wrong. That would violate some rather basic physics.

You simply don't understand what happens in a multiwire circuit.

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Art