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   jgaiennie | Jan 31, 2003 04:34am | #1

   Take another look in your panel.

   jdg

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   Michael6255 | Jan 31, 2003 04:58am | #2

   What o you mean?  the breaker snaps on the one buss bar in two places.  On the other side of the panel, there is another bus bar that has 120V as well..........

   -Mike

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   BarryO | Jan 31, 2003 06:46am | #3

   Nope.  Each of the two bus bars runs down both sides of the panel, the two bars alternating between breaker positions.  So when you plug a 220V breaker into any position, it connects to both bus bars (or both poles, to be more precise).  If a 220 breaker connected to the same pole in both positions, the 220V branch circuit would end up having zero volts between the two conductors (but both would still be 110V above ground).  In this case, 220V devices would not work.

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   jgaiennie | Jan 31, 2003 07:13am | #4

   Mike, 

   Lol.  Say it ain't so.  In light of the unbelievable thread about rewiring the table saw, it's my sneaking suspicion that you're just trying to agitate the proverbial pot o pooh.  Am I wrong?  ROFLMAO

   jdg

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   jgaiennie | Jan 31, 2003 07:19am | #5

   Tell ya what Mike.  Put a conventional 60 watt light bulb in your mouth.  Be sure to wet your lips first and to hold your tonge carefully right on the tip of the bulb.  You gotta hold your mouth just right or it'll short circuit.  Then touch the terminal on a single pole breaker with one hand, and then the neutral buss with the other.  The bulb should light normally.  Then, for the sake of comparison, with the bulb still in your mouth, touch the two terminals on a 240 breaker - one terminal each with a finger on each hand.  But close your eyes first because the bulb will explode.  It simply can't take the voltage.  Hence, a 240 breaker clearly touches two different buss bars.

   As you remove the bulb fragments from your mouth, watch out for your lips.  That broken glass is sorta sharp.  You wouldn't want to hurt yourself.

   Not really Mike - don't do that.

   jdg

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   foghorn | Jan 31, 2003 07:30am | #6

   This "Mike" isn't the one who started the thred about rewiring the Table Saw.

   Signed,

   Old Mike

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   RickL750 | Jan 31, 2003 06:43pm | #7

   Ok Mike, you need to change your username your confusing us here ha..ha.. We already have a mike. BTW I had to change mine when I first came here. I was been confuse for someone else for a while.

   Regards,

   RickL

   Formerly known as "Sarge" 

   
   

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   Jeff | Jan 31, 2003 08:45pm | #8

   How do you do that.

   Jeff

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   RickL750 | Feb 03, 2003 04:40pm | #9

   Hi Jeff,

   First click on your name on one of the messages, a small window will pop-up with your profile. On the left side of that window there’s a menu, select “My Prefs” scroll down to Nickname and re-type your new one then click the “Submit” button at the bottom.

   RickL

   P.S. Make sure you login first.