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Is this also called Reversed Polarity? 🤔🤷🏻‍♂️🔌

Question, My tester shows hot and neutral reversed, but they are not neutral(white) is on the left side, and hot(Black) is on the right.( Looking from the front ) Also I check with a volt meter and the hot ( Black) wire has 121 volts AC. Tester shows red and center green on???

Hello, I saw your comment in another video they you offer a vintage Tissot Watch D380. I'm interested.

This is old news. The info is right on the breaker. If you didn't know this then start paying attention or you're fired jeez people

square D also has half breakers where there are 2 independent breakers in the space of 1 . only down side is they are the same phase so can't be used with a common neutral.

My issue is…I’m trying to wire up this dishwasher but one side is hot…my company got the wrong side cord

Then wire them both and bring in one wire to the breaker..

Wow, nice info here. When I bought a house a few years before, the panel was full of melted double taps, and it didn't pass inspection. Even though everything worked, the seller had to have it all changed. I didn't know double taps were ever up to code. I guess it just depends on using the right breaker

American electrics are hilarious

If you look closer you can see it is rated for 2 Copper conductors. It is only rated for 1 Aluminum conductor.

If it fits I sits

good stuff...Thank you!

On many occasions I have seen inspector call out double tapped breakers claiming the wiring is not protected due to the double tap. They had no clue about over current protection. A double tap actually has the potential of being more protective of wiring.

Double taps not code for new construction in my area but allowed for existing structures. 🤡

Nice…. Thanks very much..!

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helpful for septics. put the alarm on with something else used so you know it always has power

I read somewhere it was only certain panel for industrial use and not for residential use. I don't think it's code .

If there's 2 wires from the same breaker then it's only one circuit.

A double breaker is safer than single, it will trip way below the circuit threshold, breakers protect the wires, it might trip early, but that is safer

Double taps are against code in Chicago! Regardless of the type of breaker!

I’ll take, “The code says” for $200 Bob. Only if the breaks is designed for two taps.

So I’m assuming the breaker would trip when half the rated load (80% of 20 amps) of the two combined circuits is reached. It essentially sounds like the 20 amp home runs when combined are derated in a double-tap situation..

Son of a biscuit. Learn something new every day

Never knew that thanks for the vid and new information.

so to summarize, is that legal?

When you said "double- tap", I thought you were talking about breakers with two breakers in one. I had to educate a customer about these once. She had a family friend who wired her electric dryer and it wouldn't run. The ff had wired the circuit from a double breaker, thinking it was 220V. That dryer wasn't even getting 120.

Here in Florida at least the insurance company won't care, it's still technically a double tap, it just happens to be a legal double tap. Arguing with them is futile, they don't care if they are wrong. Insurance company will require it to be fixed (as simple as making a union in the panel with a pigtail and land the pigtail wire on the breaker and you are done). Load doesn't matter really as you can't know what the potential load will be, particularly on a circuit with outlet/s. That's what the breaker is for.

😃Pretty hard to overload a breaker ... that's their sole purpose - to trip with too much load!🙃

Does Eaton breakers allow for double taps? I can not find it on the breaker like square d and CH does.

As an inspector, I am surprised that you would use the word double “tap”! When talking electrical, you should be using electrical terms. That is not a “tap”. Little words when talking about NEC are extremely important, they can make huge differences in understanding. For instance if you had no video and said double tap, would anyone know what you were talking about? Not if they were an electrical professional.

That's what amp probes are for

First time this has ever come up in discussion. thank you

So are they sharing a neutral?

Helped me figure out my problem. Had the side with the two white wires swapped and that did it. Thank you!

Proplem is if double lug found you never know unless you ring out both wires. Homeowners do some crazy add ons to existing circuits. Best to check.

At an continuing education class the instructor thought that on breakers approved for two wires you probably should not mix a #14 & a #10 guage wire on a 15 amp breaker.

Outlets & lights should be on separate breakers?

Looks like the square washer is misaligned. Is it OK that the wires don't sit properly in the cups?

I love how people think that adding several outlets on a single breaker is "Over loading" it. The outlet has no load. You can install 100 outlets on one breaker and it will be 100% fine. It's what you plug into to outlets that will cause an overload. For example if you plug in a 1500 watt space heater into one outlet and then a 1200watt blow dryer into a second outlet on the same circuit breaker this will over load it and pop the breaker as this is more than a 15 amp(1875 watt) or 20 amp (2400 watt) breaker can take. how to get wattage for your devices is simple. Voltage multiplied by the current = Wattage. I.E 120Vac x 20amp = 2400 watts. And if you don't know the amps of a device but know the voltage and watts, you can do it that way too. 2400watts divide by 120 vac = 20 amps. Hope this clears up for some of you..:)

I use a double breaker in one slot. The invention of the single space 2 breaker is awesome. You can literally double the number of breakers in a small panel

Must state: Never exceed the rating of the conductor when selecting the breaker.

The double lug rating is primarily because it has a pressure pad and not just a scew against the wire.

I've been in the electrical trade almost 40 years and never knew SQD breakers were dual rated. I'm looking at one now rated #14-#8 with one conductor and #14-#10 with two conductors.

don't ever forget: write nuts are allowed in panels

thanks ,didn't know that, i assume it still works on a thermal overload

A clamp meter will tell u how much load is drawing off each wire but i would. Use a circuit finder to identify the # of possible loads anyway.

My well is 160 feet deep and the water is always test good but I do shock it once a year then let it run until I smell it come out of the faucet in house then usually leave for a day then flush everything out but I first bypass my water softener so I don't damage the pellets that soften the water.

What about EATON brand breakers.

I've seen my share of double tapped breakers. Either because it was an older home and they needed to add one more circuit and the panel was full and didn't want to spend a bunch of money for a larger panel or a subpanel, or there was a issue with a breaker that caused arcing and damage to part of the bus making that slot unusable and they move that circuit onto another breaker instead of replacing the panel.