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    Jun 24, 2015, 02:42 PM
    Breaker Electric
    Circuit 24: has two 20 amp breakers is in one piece. Two wires are only attached to the top breaker. It seems the bottom breaker is a spare.When it trips only the top breaker trips. The 20amp top breaker serves window ac/washing machine/ refrigerator/ computer/
    But they are not on, at the same time. Question is the bottom breaker just a spare?? Too bad it couldn't be use on circuit 24, to share the load?
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    Jun 24, 2015, 03:49 PM
    Show us a picture of this breaker and its wiring.
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    Jun 25, 2015, 01:12 PM
    Lots of reasons it was done that way.
    Electrician too lazy to get the proper breaker and/or a blank could be one of them.
    It's likely you can separate them and utilize both circuit, but then you have a multi wire branch circuit sharing just one neutral... and that is a maybe. Until you can figure out how everything is wired you shouldn't change anything. It actually may have been done that way for a reason... good or bad one.
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    Jun 25, 2015, 03:11 PM
    Duplicate thread: https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/electr...er-813317.html
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