The code says one wire per one terminal.
If you are referring to a circuit breaker in an electrical panel, each circuit breaker is designed to trip at a preset amperage rating. The NEC (national electrical code) only allows one circuit, rated at no more than 80% of the breaker rating to be fed from each circuit breaker. Generally the builder will design the electrical layout of any building to maximize and to most effectively balance the load for lighting and receptacles. Adding another circuit wire to the load side of the breaker already in use could have a potential for overload which could cause the breaker to heat up and trip, not to mention that it complicates things during troubleshooting. New circuits or other wire additions must have their own breaker.
Your only hope is that someone wired the box not to code and that there are two wires going into the offending breaker. If you can't separate wires you can't distribute the load.
If it was two wires under one screw on a single-pole breaker, that would not be proper, and most probably against electrical code.If it was two wires, each under their own screw on a double-pole breaker, then that would be a 220 volt circuit; each wire going to its own "leg" of the breaker panel.
A conductor carries the voltage potential from the source to the load, i.e. the wires from a circuit breaker to a light.
If someone only connect one of the wires to the bulb holder, the circuit will be open and the lamp will not light. This is the same principal that a switch in the circuit does. It opens and closes the circuit.
A circuit breaker is designed to 'break' in a circuit if a short circuit (or other malfunction) occurs. This prevents overheating (or burn-out) of the circuit wires. In older systems, you would need to find which fuse wire has fused and replace it. In a circuit breaker, once the fault has been found and corrected, the breaker is simply switched back on.
It should be connected to circuit breaker. Circuit breaker will automatically discontinue the flow of electricity if it detects faulty condition.
If you are referring to a circuit breaker in an electrical panel, each circuit breaker is designed to trip at a preset amperage rating. The NEC (national electrical code) only allows one circuit, rated at no more than 80% of the breaker rating to be fed from each circuit breaker. Generally the builder will design the electrical layout of any building to maximize and to most effectively balance the load for lighting and receptacles. Adding another circuit wire to the load side of the breaker already in use could have a potential for overload which could cause the breaker to heat up and trip, not to mention that it complicates things during troubleshooting. New circuits or other wire additions must have their own breaker.
A breaker is a device that is used to connect and disconnect the buss bars of an electrical panel to the feed end of wires that feed an electrical load. The function of a breaker is to protect the wires from an overload by the use of an internal thermal trip, and to protect the load and wires from a short circuit by use of an internal magnetic trip.
Yes, the rating of a 3 pole circuit breaker is the same for each conductor that is connected to it. A three pole breaker rated at 30 amps will have 3 #10 wires from it that connect to the load.
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Your only hope is that someone wired the box not to code and that there are two wires going into the offending breaker. If you can't separate wires you can't distribute the load.
If it was two wires under one screw on a single-pole breaker, that would not be proper, and most probably against electrical code.If it was two wires, each under their own screw on a double-pole breaker, then that would be a 220 volt circuit; each wire going to its own "leg" of the breaker panel.
A conductor carries the voltage potential from the source to the load, i.e. the wires from a circuit breaker to a light.
If someone only connect one of the wires to the bulb holder, the circuit will be open and the lamp will not light. This is the same principal that a switch in the circuit does. It opens and closes the circuit.
Battery connect to large terminal Starter connect to other large terminal Trigger wire (smaller) connects to small terminal If you have an extra small terminal disregard
Yes, it will be protected by a circuit breaker or fuse. The normal rating of the circuit breaker or fuse is 25% more than the maximum current expected, or the maximum current allowed for the cable size, whichever is lower.