On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:23:39 -0700, Doug Winterburn
wrote:

On 12/07/2010 06:40 PM, Bill wrote:
Mike Marlow wrote:
FrozenNorth wrote:


Nothing stopping you from feeding two 120V switches with the 12/3,
then two separate runs of 12/2 to your fixtures.

I'll take the correction if I'm wrong, but doesn't the NEC require
that you
downgrade the circuit if sharing a neutral?


Makes sense..I look forward to learning the answer.

Bill

As long as the two hots are of opposite phase, no problem.
Not technically "opposite phase" as it is a single phase service
(center tapped transformer)