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Thank you all for the help! I feel a lot better about doing this now. I'll have to see about the alum sleeve you were talking about. I'll ask the people at home depot about it. Again thanks so much.
EZ as hell, you do it live with the breaker your putn in turned off, super EZ. you can get double brakers to make one 20a two, or 1 15a to two if you need more space(full panel).
No need to turn off the main breaker.
cutn the main breaker for addn ah plug= chinken shit, ive ran 220's on live 440's its safe, no need to reset everything, trust me.
ive done more electric then GE, dont listen to chinken shits.
If you take that ^ guys advice, youll chinken out of everything simple in life that "something can happen". and hes probably never done any electric.
i would never try to get anyone hurt.
Edit= if your that worried, get help or pay, but it is ez, after the first time you would never worry again.
underground,, you ever hear of this quote?
the neutral is the captain of the boat
first on and last off
kinda helped me remember what to do when i first started electrical
hiboy
No I haven't, and other than the ground it sounds like a great way to remember. I like to have the ground hooked up anytime any other conductors are in play. That way metal objects, ie: entire light fxtures, can not become energized.
PS What hiboy is saying here is much the same as what I said, but is more to remind you that the neutral may be under a load. Which can cause damage if disconnected under a load.
This is even more important on a multi wire circuit. One with two hots and a neutral. You can disconnect the neutral in such a way that the neutral from both loads are connected without being connected to the panel. This creates a series-parallel circuit. If not perfectly balanced (the exact same load on each phase) this can cause your equipment to become damaged because the voltage will vary with the load. In other words, you can end up with a circuit with 200 volts and another with 40 volts.
cutn the main breaker for addn ah plug= chinken shit, ive ran 220's on live 440's its safe, no need to reset everything, trust me.
ive done more electric then GE, dont listen to chinken shits.
If you take that ^ guys advice, youll chinken out of everything simple in life that "something can happen". and hes probably never done any electric.
i would never try to get anyone hurt.
Edit= if your that worried, get help or pay, but it is ez, after the first time you would never worry again.
My BIL was telling me about this a while back, when using the same neutral for 2+ circuits.
What if you are using a neutral for 3 circuits, disconnect the hot on one circuit, then the neutral? That would still create an unbalanced load would'nt it?
My BIL was telling me about this a while back, when using the same neutral for 2+ circuits.
What if you are using a neutral for 3 circuits, disconnect the hot on one circuit, then the neutral? That would still create an unbalanced load would'nt it?
Thx for the support on this one guys, sorry my nuts weren't big enough to advise an electrical newbie to take a shower in his main panel and leave the main on....wtf, my sweat is a conductor and I shouldn't have left my wedding ring on?!?!