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Topic:   Double Tap Off Main Breaker - 899 visits (1 today, 5 this week)

Bruce Breedlove
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posted March 25, 2007 05:04 PM            

What do you do when you need to add a circuit and there is no room for expansion in the main panel?

You tap the new circuit off the main breaker, of course. The wire doesn't need to be protected by a breaker because it only serves the satellite dish.

Note gratuitous use of sarcasm above. This installation was all wrong. (Kind of what you would expect from a satellite dish installation contractor.)

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Tim Moreira
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posted March 25, 2007 05:15 PM            

"Survey Says"

NO!!!

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Philip Desmarais
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posted March 25, 2007 10:40 PM            

“The wire doesn't need to be protected by a breaker because it only serves the satellite dish.”

240V for a dish? Even if only one of those taps at the main is for the dish, that’s still 120V. That must be one powerful system. I have to apologize up front for this but… I’m fighting… Fighting… Still resisting… I’m struggling with trying not to say something about a system like that must be strong enough to work between the dish and Uranus. I lost the battle.

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posted March 25, 2007 10:53 PM            

My point is that, at least in my DirecTV system, the satellite dish operates at low voltage from a box that simply plugs into a receptacle near my TV. I don't buy the idea that an installation company would have a need to install a new circuit soley for the dish.