al hildenbrand
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- Electrical Contractor, Electrical Consultant, Electrical Engineer
OK, that helps.. . . the issue is im being told that by splicing the two togeather you would have an unbalenced load on the neutral . . .
Go to Article 100
When you splice the red and black of a 3-wire cable together with a pigtail, and connect to a single pole of a breaker, there is no longer a multiwire branch circuit. The branch circuit wiring becomes a single branch circuit.2008 NEC Article 100 Definitions
Branch Circuit, Multiwire. A branch circuit that consists of two or more ungrounded conductors that have a voltage between them, and a grounded conductor that has equal voltage between it and each ungrounded conductor of the circuit and that is connected to the neutral or grounded conductor of the system.
The current on the neutral is the current coming through the breaker.