How do you load up a panel?

[infinity]

I do, too, with the addition that I also try to stack 2p's one one side and 1p's on the other, which minimizes the likelihood of placing two large breakers head-to-head on the same stabs.

I prefer the largest circuits nearest the supplied end of the buses, usually up, for the least amount of bus in the current pathway. It also plain ol' looks better.

If the bus and conductors feeding it are of the same ampacity heat should not be an issue even if the largest breakers were on the bottom. It really makes no difference. I do agree with you on the opposite stab issue.

 

[electricmanscott]

None of this makes any difference. This is all just personal preference.