Bulldog panel question

[brian winkle]

Originally Posted by tallen

So, two circuts, one for the bedrooms and one for the living room can be spliced together and attached to one breaker??

That is what I wanted clarified.

Yes, thats the only way to do it without double tapping when there are no more breakers. It's not really two circuits, it's now one. Think of it as adding to an existing circuit, only the splice is in the panel instead of a jct. box.

Now that doesn't mean the circuit is not overloaded, but it would be beyond your scope to be the judge of that. Adding to a circuit doesn't neccesarily mean the load has increased. A load calculation would need to be performed on the circuit(s) in question to verify if they are sufficient for the loads present.

[Greg Fretwell]

Originally Posted by tallen

So, two circuts, one for the bedrooms and one for the living room can be spliced together and attached to one breaker??

That is what I wanted clarified.

The bedroom may be a problem (AFCI) but there is no problem with spliting a branch circuit and sending it off in different directions.

[Ted Allen]

Thanks folks.

I have always recommended a sparkie check things out when I have found 2 or more runs of cable pigtailed to one breaker.
The reason is, that back some time ago, I wired lots and lots of homes and cannot remember ever having to do such a thing.

Am I just being a pain in the butt for having it checked out???

[Ted Allen]

Originally Posted by brian winkle

Yes, thats the only way to do it without double tapping when there are no more breakers. It's not really two circuits, it's now one. Think of it as adding to an existing circuit, only the splice is in the panel instead of a jct. box.

Now that doesn't mean the circuit is not overloaded, but it would be beyond your scope to be the judge of that. Adding to a circuit doesn't neccesarily mean the load has increased. A load calculation would need to be performed on the circuit(s) in question to verify if they are sufficient for the loads present.

I understand what you are talking about. It just seems odd to me that when a home is being wired the "home run" is for one breaker and is one circuit and if there are 2 "home runs" going to one breaker something is fishy.

Of course, I am the paranoid type.