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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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PUCampin
Explorer
Sep 28, 2016
The only time I have seen an issue with tandem breakers is when used with a multi-wire branch circuit (when 2 hots share a neutral). Not likely to see this in an RV, but I had to correct 3 of these when I bought my house so I think of it anytime someone mentions tandems :)

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