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Old 10-27-2006, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Coderad View Post
Everyone has 120 and 240volts in there house in North America.
To get 240 you need to use a 2 pole breaker, and you both parts of the phase. You will have 2 "hot" wires and then 1 neutral and 1 ground.
You would have to run a 3wire to your tank to power the light thats all.
and have room in your breaker box for the double breaker you will need. Personaly I have the room, and if you are worried about how much space you have in the fuse pannel for a big tank 240 is the way to go as you could run 15 amp 240 into a remote box, has two plugs off that as 240 and then split it down to about 20 amps worth of 120.

what I did in the old house was run a 15 amp 240 to my tank where I split it directly into two 15 amp runs of 120.

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