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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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ScottG
Nomad
Sep 28, 2016
There is no need to "balance loads" on a 240V panel unless your Xfmr is tased (not likely) or your using an incerter or gen.
You can literally have everything on one side and nothing on the other and it will still work fine assuming appropriate sized conductorsand aren't exceeding any specs.

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