[Shop-talk] Electrical Outlet wiring question

[Steven Trovato]

I'm not a big fan of it myself.  It makes the wiring harder to figure 
out.  You can't use a standard GFI type breaker.   Independent 
control of the circuits would be nicer than the single 220 
breaker.  But I have never heard of anything that would make it any 
more prone to failure.


At 11:50 PM 3/12/2010, Peter J. Thomas wrote:

>I had a conversion on 220 and phase difference with a licensed 
>electrician some while ago and the topic of shared neutral came 
>up.  He denounced the practice sharing a neutral.   I understand the 
>phase difference cancelling and even asked him about it.  He 
>insisted it was a bad practice, and IIRC said he had seen 
>failures.  Just thought I would share the warning he gave me.