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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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joebedford
Nomad II
Sep 28, 2016
ScottG wrote:
A tandem breaker will work just fine for the OP. There is no need to run a space heater off each leg. It just doesnt matter.
As David P wrote, we're making this more complicated than it needs to be.
Why doesn't it matter? I thought load balancing was important. I know each leg is 50A but if I try to run 2 heaters plus a coffee pot and the microwave ON THE SAME LEG it might not work.

Besides, even though the breaker says 50A, my generator's breakers say 25A and 30A.

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