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Originally Posted by Steve in PA
tie the neutral and returns together...
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No. Don't tie the neutral and ground together. It messes up the whole point of the ground wire. It's wrong.
Otherwise, you have pretty good general advice on this. Be best to just start over with a proper sevice wire to the application.
If not, the rest of what you say is the general way to do it, _if_ there are the right size wires to do so for the load they will have. He'd end up with a hot, a hot, a neutral, and a ground, and one taped off unused ground and one taped off unused neutral - all of that gets real dicey if it is to code to have 2 different lines feeding to the single outlet, likely is totally ilegal, but we'll get to that once we find out the wire sizes and total current needed....
Heaters are long-term loads, so you _don't_ want to skimp on the wire size. You don't want to barely sneak by. When those heaters are on for hours at a time, they will melt down an undersized wire. It's not like a welder, that one used for short bursts of high use, and then does nothing for 80% of the time, so the wires can cool back down. A heater like this is going to really need the proper size of feed wires to it, so you don't turn the house wiring into heaters themselves!
These electrical threads are always fun, hopefully folks get actual good advice from local folk rather than relying upon dolts like myself 100's of miles away.
--->Paul
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