In many applications 3 conductors share one neutral, would you use a three pole breaker?
Safety considerations are great, but common sense has to enter the picture at sometime. We recently worked in a nursing home, 3 circuits shared 1 nuetral- circuit 1 fire alarm panel- circuit 2 receps near alarm panel- circuit 3 receps in patient room. With a 3 pole breaker a overload on circuit 2 would turn of circuit 3 and possibly shut off important medical equipment. Not the way i would circuit this area, but we need to be realistic- cost saving is very important in todays world. I geuss the point off all this is, take a minute and find out what everything is before you discconnect anything.
[This message has been edited by dandy467d (edited 12-24-2000).]
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