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Old 04-01-2008, 08:02 PM
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You guys may want to point out to people who are not familar with electricity that you can run 2 seperate circuits on a 12/3 with ground but that you need to make sure that you dont connect to the same phase since your neutral wire sees the current from a unbalanced circuit. If you connect your hot wires to the same phase the neutral wire will carry the the current that the 2 hot wires are carrying and if you lose the neutral wire it turns a parallel circuit into a series circuit and can smoke appliances that are being used on that circuit.
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