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Originally Posted by ben parrish
Yes, you can do that but the connections must be inside a sealed box that is accessible…as in not covered by Sheetrock. I remodeled a master bath and moved outlets around. I didn’t want to run another 50’ home run to the panel so I added a few junction boxes in the attic and mounted then about 4’ up on truss supports so when I blew in the 30” of insulation, the junction boxes were still accessible…god I hope I never have to go back up there and wade through that loose blown insulation.
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I just did them right in the main panel- no extra boxes or messing about, just take the two wires off of the two breakers(or more if they are really lightly loaded), wire nut the two(or more) with a length of new wire going to just one breaker.