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james t kirk · 03-06-2005, 01:17 PM

Powdered is right on track.

The only thing I might add is a GFI breaker in the main panel.

You can run a piece of 14-3 NMWU which will provide for 2 circuits, the only thing is that you need the proper double breaker that ensures that you take one hot lead off of one phase, and the other hot lead off of the other phase. In that case you can use one neutral.

If you take both hot phases off of the same phase with one neutral, you will have a "neutral overload" situation. This is impossible to do if you use the double 15 amp breaker however because the hot terminals in the breaker panel are staggered so that no two adjacent terminals are from the same phase.

The only thing I might add is that if if the run is over so many feet, you will experience a voltage drop due to the length of the conductors and you should switch from a 14-3 to a 12-3 NMWU.

03-06-2005, 01:17 PM	#11 (permalink)
james t kirk Junkie Location: Toronto	Powdered is right on track. The only thing I might add is a GFI breaker in the main panel. You can run a piece of 14-3 NMWU which will provide for 2 circuits, the only thing is that you need the proper double breaker that ensures that you take one hot lead off of one phase, and the other hot lead off of the other phase. In that case you can use one neutral. If you take both hot phases off of the same phase with one neutral, you will have a "neutral overload" situation. This is impossible to do if you use the double 15 amp breaker however because the hot terminals in the breaker panel are staggered so that no two adjacent terminals are from the same phase. The only thing I might add is that if if the run is over so many feet, you will experience a voltage drop due to the length of the conductors and you should switch from a 14-3 to a 12-3 NMWU. Last edited by james t kirk; 03-06-2005 at 01:22 PM..