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Installing new breakers

norcam50
8 years ago

I've run 12/2 wire for a new finished basement. One run is for all the outlets in the finished room. One is dedicated to a GFIC in the bathroom. The other is for a 2000 amp 240 volt heater. In my electric panel I have a space that presently has a double 50 amp breaker that was originally used for an electric stove but is no longer being utilized because of a switch to gas. I have a 20 amp double pole breaker for the heater; Is it ok to put the double 20 amp breaker in the space that had the double 50? I have three other spaces available in my electric panel. Does it matter which goes where? I've read in other forums that the breakers should be distributed evenly in respect to amps so I might have a lot of 15 amp breakers on one side as opposed to a lot of 20's on the other. Should I redistribute if that is the case?

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