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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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mike-s
Explorer
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.
It may matter. As he said in his original post - "better for when I'm running my generator." He may have a split-phase gen set.

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