Double Tapped Breaker

B2theRy

hello all,
at a recent home inspection, the inspector noted that a breaker was double tapped and this is not good because it could arc, one wire is for lights and the other is for the doorbell transformer, he mention i could use a 2 pole breaker like the one pictured here, is this true or safe?? what else could i do with the doorbell wire? put it on another seperate appropriate breaker?
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rjniles

Remove the 2 wires from the breaker, wire nut them together with a single pigtail. Run the new pigtail to the breaker. You do not need to dedicate a breaker to a doorbell xformer.

jbfan

Some breakers are made to be doubletapped, orwise just as the handy husband stated and you will be good to go.

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frenchelectrican

Most SqD and CH breakers are listed for doubletapped with two conductors at the termail screw however Double check the label to make sure { they are only allowed on 30 amp or smaller breaker size } I doubt that other are listed like that.

Otherwise just make a pigtail and wirenutted it and that will useally take care the issue there.

Merci,Marc