i have two rooms in my newly remodeled basement. i ran two separate 20A circuits in each room (one circuit to the south and east walls, one circuit to the north and west walls). in case your wondering, one is an office, one is a small A/V room (it falls short of a "home theater" in terms of devices and complexity). this puts four 20A breakers in the main panel servicing two rooms. based on loads that i have in each room, it seems overkill to service each room with two circuits, where one would do. The reason i want to consolidate is so that i can put all the outlets in each room onto a generator circuit. at present, i only have two available generator slots, so if i combine each room into one circuit, instead of two, then i can put each full room onto the generator and not have to worry about which walls will be active when the gen kicks in and which walls will be dark.
the obvious solutions seems to tie the two black wires from each room together, plus a third black pigtail wire, nut them together (although i prefer the push in style) then run the pigtail to the lug in the breaker.
here's my questions.....
is it okay to do this in the circuit breaker panel?
from a common sense, a physical, an NEC Code compliance perspective
is there a minimum length for the pigtail?
is there a need to tie and pigtail the white and ground wires as well, or can i leave them tied into the common bus as they are now?
Thanks
BeekerC
the obvious solutions seems to tie the two black wires from each room together, plus a third black pigtail wire, nut them together (although i prefer the push in style) then run the pigtail to the lug in the breaker.
here's my questions.....
is it okay to do this in the circuit breaker panel?
from a common sense, a physical, an NEC Code compliance perspective
is there a minimum length for the pigtail?
is there a need to tie and pigtail the white and ground wires as well, or can i leave them tied into the common bus as they are now?
Thanks
BeekerC