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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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Chris_Bryant
Explorer II
Sep 28, 2016
The only problems I have with tandem breakers is where both sides have a large load on them- often the 30 amp service coaches will use a 30/20, with the 30 being the input, and the 20 being the air conditioner- these will get pretty hot.

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