Single pole circuit on a 2 pole breaker.

[frankft2000]

Would it be code compliant to use 1 pole of a two pole breaker for a 1 pole circuit?

 

[Dennis Alwon]

That would be compliant

 

[goldstar]

Compliant - yes. But why would you do it (just curious) ? You're only eating up space in the breaker panel.

 

[kwired]

Compliant - yes. But why would you do it (just curious) ? You're only eating up space in the breaker panel.

How about a two pole spare already mounted in the panel? You still have an unused space in a way and may want to change it to a single pole should you ever want to use that unused pole.