Originally Posted by Brian Bischoff
Joe,
If I am looking at your photo correctly, you really have a 12 slot panel. In some panels you are allowed to use half size breakers as you have on the right side of your panel which potentially could allow you to have 24 circuits in a 12 slot panel. Many people (me included) do not like half-sized breakers unless absolutely necessary. Normally when numbering your slots you have 1,3,5,7,9,11 on the left and 2,4,6,8,10,12 on the right. When you use half-sized breakers you don't re-number them to 1-24. You have circuit 10A, 10B, 12A, etc. Actually what you have is a full size double pole breaker on circuits 9&11 for one outlet and a half-sized double pole breaker on circuits 10 and 12 (actually 10B and 12A) for the other. As you can see, the half-sized double pole breaker is positioned so that it has one leg on one phase (10B) and one leg on the other phase (12A). This should work fine.
Brian