/sci/ - Science & Math

Cold Take: As someone that had to do a bunch of electrical work on a house that had more than a dozen unlabeled multi-wire branch circuits, ended up working on shared neutrals that would have been carrying load had the wrong switch been flipped, and seeing the mess of a breaker box we were left with after we found out it needed replacing filled with tied together breakers all over the fucking place, FUCK multi-wire branch circuits and anyone that uses them. From what the electricians said they aren't even that common and they made working with the system annoying as all fuck.

It's fucking horrifying to me that some idiot removing a tiny piece of plastic before the next person comes along is all it takes to potentially get someone electrocuted or a circuit fried.

You shouldn't use these just for the dropped neutral risk alone. Just run the extra god damn wire.