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Doug Miller

In article , wrote:

I thought it was code that both breakers of an Edison circuit had to
be ganged together so what just happened here cant happen. Is this
true?

No. The U.S. NEC requires tied breakers only if there's at least one device on
the circuit that's supplied by both legs (e.g. a duplex receptacle with the
tie-bar removed on the hot side, and each half of the receptacle supplied by a
different leg).

IMO that's a serious flaw in the Code -- I think tied breakers should *always*
be used on Edison circuits.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.