Timeline for 120/240 Multi wire branch circuit - failed inspection because of uneven loads?
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| Jul 29, 2018 at 18:55 | comment | added | Ed Beal | Jim there are 2 seperate single outlets no tab to break. | |
| Jul 29, 2018 at 18:06 | comment | added | Jim Stewart | As @Harper commented maybe you should just split the hot on the 120 V receptacle (break the tab) and feed hots separately. It wouldn't cost anything and it would give the symmetry that the inspector wants. | |
| Jul 29, 2018 at 1:33 | comment | added | Ed Beal | Pull up the NEC hand book 210.2 as I said and call the inspector (most inspectors use the hand book) you have done it right but as I said most inspectors need the pictures in the hand book for something they haven't seen a thousand times!. | |
| Jul 29, 2018 at 0:33 | comment | added | tb510 | Yes it was 2 separate outlets in the box 1 20amp 120 / 1 20 amp 240. Red only goes to the 240. Black is split to the 120/240. The tab on the 120 was intact. I didn't see the point in breaking the tab (there isn't one anyway -- GFI outlet bc its a garage) and splitting the red to other half. I'm never going to run 3 tools at the same time on all 3 outlets. | |
| Jul 28, 2018 at 23:20 | comment | added | Ed Beal | I believe there are 2 separate outlets in this case but not sure, I have had the same problem in the past because of the wording but after showing the inspector the the exhibit in the hand book he changed his opinion. Even though they were separate outlets in a 4×4 box a 20 amp 120 and a 20 amp 240 is the same as a duplex split but it cost 1/4 of the single duplex or I think this is what the question is asking. | |
| Jul 28, 2018 at 21:14 | comment | added | Jim Stewart | I don't understand what this answer is getting at. If there is a 12/3 cable from a 2-pole breaker leading to a duplex receptacle with broken tab on hot, red hot on one and black on the other, does the NEC allow connecting two 12/2 cables (hot from red on one and hot from black on the other? | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 19:44 | history | answered | Ed Beal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |