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Twayne[_3_]

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On Dec 23, 11:37 pm, terry wrote:
On Dec 24, 12:56 am, (Doug Miller) wrote:

In article ,
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And the double pole brakers can (and should) be used with split
receptacles, but NEVER with different circuits physically in
different parts of the house.

Piffle. That is *not* a requirement of the U.S. NEC -- it might be
of the CEC,
I don't know, but it's definitely not a requirement here.

You need to re-read his situatioin unless you're trolling, too.

There's nothing wrong with running a 3-wire circuit from the panel
to a point some distance away, then splitting it out into two
individual circuits that go
in opposite directions.

On ganged breakers? I can't cite it, but no, that's not allowed. One ganged
breaker can prevent the other, if overloaded, from breaking in time to
prevent problems. It is dangerous.

If this is not a troll?
Dangerous situation. And arguing about how to wire three wires at
this long distance not likely to fix.

He's not a troll and exactly what is dangerous about this?

Catch up your reading and if you have any reading comprehension at all,
you'll understand. It appears to me you might also be a troll.

What Doug
has described is an Edison circuit which is a shared neutral circuit
using opposite legs on two breakers and is recognized as OK under the
NEC.

For 220Vac, yes. For two 110V ckts, no.

If there is anything in the NEC that says the two sides of
the circuit can't go in different directions, I'd like to see it.

In practice, I've never been a big fan of Edison circuits for a
variety of reasons, but now that the NEC requires that the two
breakers be ganged together, it removes one of my previous main
concerns.

ONLY for 220V ckts. NOT any sort of 110V ckt!

I do believe we have a troll here. Go ahead and flail, it's your liver, not
mine.

Twayne

Switch off and/or run the furnace some other way...................
until electrician arrives.
BUT GET SOMEONE THERE FAST (ASAP) to diagnose the problem and fix it.
Also check your smoke detectors and make sure everyone in the house
knows the escape routes.

That advice I strongly agree with.

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