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joebedford
Nomad II
Sep 28, 2016

Full size breakers vs. tandem (double) breakers?

I was looking at my load center breaker panel to see where to put a couple of breakers dedicated to space heaters. I have a spare slot where I intend to put a tandem 15A breaker. I'm going to move a 1...
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Stefonius
Explorer
Sep 28, 2016
If you're running "one heater on each leg", you should use two single breakers rather than a tandem. You can easily make sure each breaker is on a different leg. If you're using a tandem breaker with two potentially unbalanced 110v loads, you can cause problems.

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