Flush Tie Breaker

1. To break a tie with a full house, whoever has the highest “trips” parts of their hand wins. The “pair” part of the hand does not matter except as a tiebreaker. If the pairs are the same as well, then the hand is a tie and the pot is split. Full House Tiebreaker Examples.
2. Below: a GE THT104 Circuit Breaker Handle Tie sold for retrofit to tie adjacent breaker handles together. Below: another GE Circuit breaker toggle handle tie, this one for THQP 1/2-inch circuit breakers. Siemens Circuit Breaker Handle Ties. Siemens sells an add-on handle tie for joining circuit breakers, used with BQ, BQH, HBQ, BLH, HBL Circuit.
3. Eaton Type BR 20-Amp 1-Pole Dual Function AFCI/GFCI Circuit Breaker Square D Homeline 15-Amp 1-Pole Standard Trip Circuit Breaker GE Q-Line THQL 100-Amp 2-Pole Standard Trip Circuit Breaker.
4. – A tie break is not possible as two players cannot have a Straight Flush which is ranked the same in Texas Hold’em Poker. – If the dealer deals a Straight Flush via the 5 community cards, then the pot is split amongst all players provided no player holds a Royal Flush (meaning the Straight Flush is the strongest hand on the table).

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Every player has an ace high flush, but Player 3 wins, because the second highest card in his flush is a K, which is better than the J in the other players' flushes. Now suppose that Player 3 was all in, so there is a side pot that only Players 1 and 2 are eligible for. They tie, since they both have the same flush, which is.

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This article describes the use of handles to tie adjacent circuit breaker handles or toggle switches together to force both circuit breakers off should one of them experience a short or over-current.

This handle tie is required for 240VAC circuits and for multi-wire branch circuit breakers.

Page top photo: a pair of full-width circuit breakers used to power a multi-wire branch circuit.

Watch out: This wiring is unsafe because arranged as shown it is not possible to force the pair of breakers to trip off should a short or over-current occur on one leg of this circuit.

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Types of Common Trip Tie Handle Connections for Circuit Breakers

This article describes methods for joining two adjacent circuit breakers so that both will trip off as required.

Using the U.S. National Electrical Code as an example, common internal trip ties on circuit breaker toggle switch handles are required by NEC 240.20(B) in some cases, such as when the circuit breaker pair is powering a 240VAC circuit or on a multi wire branch circuit sharing a common neutral wire.

That NEC paragraph requires that

(B) Disconnecting Means.

Each multi-wire branch circuit shall be provided with a means that will simultaneously disconnect all ungrounded conductors at the point where the branch circuit originates.

Tandem circuit breakers (two breakers powering two circuits fit into a single original breaker slot in a panel) also trip together.

Watch out: in our opinion and that of others, a handle-only connection in some circuit breaker designs may leave one breaker 'on' and the other 'off' - a dangerous condition because of the chance of fooling the electrician or homeowner into thinking that all electrical power is off when it is not.

NEC 210-4-b makes clear that split receptacles must be protected by asimultaneous disconnect to all ungrounded (hot) conductors (i.e. use adouble-pole breaker with a common trip tie installed).NEC Paragraph 210-4 addresses multiwire branch circuits.

Even if a circuit breaker pair can be physically connected by a common handle (not possible in the case of Pushmatic™ breakers) the level of protection is not the same as that provided by two-pole or double-pole circuit breakers with a common internal trip tie mechanism.

Note that many tandem (half-width or 'thin') circuit breaker pairs that fit into a single circuit breaker slot in an electrical panel are designed with a common internal trip mechanism that will trip off both breakers should either of them sense an overcurrent.

However because both such breakes will be powering circuits on the same panel leg or (speaking loosely 'phase), you cannot correctly wire a multiwire circuit (shared neutral) nor a 240V circuit from one such breaker pair. Instead you'd wire the multiwire circuit or a 240V circuit from the outside breakers of two tandem breaker pairs like the ones shown in Mr. Morgan's photo above.

There the yellow plastic ties indicate pairs of tandem circuit breakers that are powering multiwire branch circuits.

Question: how to tie together narrow-width tandem circuit breaker handles

2019/05/16 Charles Morgan said:

When narrow-width breakers are used in a multi-wire circuit (like 10B and 12A in your example) is there an accepted method of physically tying the breakers together? Right now I'm using tie-wraps.

This Q&A were posted originally at MULTI-WIRE CIRCUITS

Photo, provided by InspectApedia.com reader CM illustrates a not-approved and probably not-reliable DIY method for joining adjacent toggle switch handles in a tandem circuit breaker pair used to power multi-wire branch circuits in a U.S. home.

Reply:

Charles

Thank you for the interesting question and photo: how to find common trip-ties for narrow-width circuit breakers.

Watch out: no do-it-yourself or 'home made' circuit breaker handle ties such as screws, nails, or plastic ties are acceptable: they are unsafe, violate electrical code, and risk fire or shock, even death to an an electrician working on such circuits.

There are several concerns but the most-basic is that we're relying on a DIY circuit breaker trip tie that may not perform reliably nor safely to turn BOTH breakers off should an overcurrent or short occur on one of the circuits of the pair. Also we're modifying a circuit breaker outside of its listed or design specifications.

It will help my research if you can tell me the circuit breaker brand and model - from the panel labeling and from labels on the circuit breakers - or post a sharp photo showing me the circuit breaker label.

Here's another example: Square-D provides a handle tie that joins alternate-breaker handles for thin (half-width) tandem circuit breakers in its FKHT circuit breaker series.

Above: this type of common trip tie for Square-D circuit breakers is used on Square-D breaker models FA, FI, KA, KI breakers, 2 to 3 pole models and has UL approval.

In your photo I don't see that design. So if your breaker manufacturer permits adjoining adjacent half-width or 'tandem' circuit breaker toggles it'd be with a clip-over handle tie such as others .

Examples of Handle Ties for Circuit Breaker Toggle Switches

Watch out:Select the proper and approved handle tie for your specific brand and model circuit breaker pair. Again from the US NEC:

6.1.5.3 Single-pole circuit breakers rated at 120/240 V ac or 125/250 V DC shall have provision for the use of handle ties. Handle ties, when installed, shall:

a) Operate both circuit breakers when either circuit breaker handle is manually operated;

b) Not be readily removable; and

c) Not obscure the ampere marking on either circuit breaker.

Watch out: While most residential circuit breakers are 'slash-rated' and can be tied together, not all circuit breakers are so rated nor designed for that use. Check the rating of your breakers.

7.1.1.12 If a single-pole circuit breaker is rated at 120/240 V ac or 125/250 V dc, see 6.1.5.3, two such circuit breakers shall be tested together in the intended manner as a 2-pole independent-trip circuit breaker in the overload, endurance, interrupting, and dielectric voltage-withstand test described below. Two such ‘pairs’ of circuit breakers constitute a set.

The concern is that where a pair of joined circuit breakers must be installed so that if either trips, both breakers will switch off, if instead the handle tie or breaker design could permit just one breaker to turn off while the other remains on, the circuit is unsafe. A common example of this application is multiwire branch circuits that share a common neutral, discussed

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Eaton Cutler Hammer Breaker Ties

Below: an Eaton Cutler Hammer THOW type circuit breaker handle tie.

Below: another Eaton CH circuit breaker tie bar, this one made of plastic.

GE Circuit Breaker Handle Ties

Below: a GE THT104 Circuit Breaker Handle Tie sold for retrofit to tie adjacent breaker handles together.

Below: another GE Circuit breaker toggle handle tie, this one for THQP 1/2-inch circuit breakers

Siemens Circuit Breaker Handle Ties

Siemens sells an add-on handle tie for joining circuit breakers, used with BQ, BQH, HBQ, BLH, HBL Circuit Breakers but yours appear to be a different breaker brand and model.

Square D Breaker Handle Ties

Above: the 40A breakers of this Square-D Homeline circuit breaker set are tied together with a factory-installed common-trip tie.

Below: Metal circuit breaker toggle ties for Square D QO-Series circuit breakers sold under the Homeline Tandem Breaker line. These connectors 'convert adjacent tandem single-pole breakers to double-pole' (Home Depot).

You can see that a simple plastic or steel device inserts between adjacent tandem breaker toggles in adjacent tandem breakers in the panel. However breakers that are designed to permit that common trip tie are issued from the factory with holes in the circuit breaker toggle switches - holes intended to accommodate the common trip tie device. These handle ties are also sold in a plastic version shown below.

Flush Tie Breaker

Watch out: rather than use home-made circuit breaker toggle ties or plastic ties or a nail or screw, use the manufacturer's recommended device for your specific circuit breaker brand and model. Otherwise the circuits you are wiring may not be properly protected and you risk fire, shock, or death.

A home-made or improperly selected and installed handle tie on a circuit breaker pair violates the listing of the product. In essence, it's 'illegal'.

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