russrmartin
Member
Hey guys, got an off topic temp wiring question for you. There's a guy here pulling 8 single phase 120 volt drops to a new box which will house 8 recepticles. Each will be on it's own circuit. The guy who told him to do this informed him to run 1 neutral with each set of 3 hots. Example, breakers 1,3,5 share a neutral, etc. My question is what is the point of this. If the neutrals carry the unbalanced load, and all 8 circuits are being pulled individually off 8 separate breakers, from the same panel, to the same location, could he not pull only 1 neutral? I guess I am confused as to why it would not be 1 neutral or 8. I haven't consulted the code book yet, because I'm lazy and thought this might be faster. If I find the answer before it shows up here, I'll answer this myself.
Russ
Russ