On 11/6/2009 8:38 PM dpb spake thus:

Existential Angst wrote:
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The Q might be then, What constitutes "corresponding neutrals": one
neutral for one or two hots, or one big neutral for a bunch of hots?

Same as I gave you before except for 3-wire circuits--_every_ hot must
have its corresponding neutral, no exceptions.

Yes, and from the OP's continued queries, it sounds more and more like
they don't really don't know much about wiring, which makes what they're
trying to do pretty doubtful.

To reiterate: the *only* circumstance where two hot wires can share a
neutral is in a so-called "Edison" circuit. The requirement is that the
hot wires must be on different phases--in other words, from different
buses in the distribution panel. That way, the sum of currents in the
one neutral can never exceed the wire's rating. The OP said some vague
things about "balancing loads": it's a whole lot more specific than that.


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