[aunsafe2015]

@djwakelee, you said “pass multiple wires through the clamps for some 120V loads”

I have a Square D homeline panel that actually allows two hot conductors to go to certain single pole breakers.  For example, I have one 20-amp breaker that has two 12-gauge hot wires going into it.  Are you saying I could put one of the Vue2 mini-clamps around both of those wires, and it would correctly measure the sum total of the usage of both wires?

I was thinking I probably needed to pigtail those 2 wires and just have a single hot wire going into the breaker for Vue2 to measure usage accurately, but if I could just put the clamp around both wires, I would just leave it that way.

[aunsafe2015]

Thanks for the info.  My panel is a plug-on neutral panel, so my AFCI and GFCI breakers don’t actually have a neutral wire coming out of them and going to a neutral bar.  I suppose that just for the breaker I connect my Vue2 to, I could replace the plug-on neutral breaker with a standard white-wire AFCI breaker.

As for the white wire from the Vue2 being connected to the same neutral slot as the white wire from the AFCI breaker, is there a preferred way to do this?  Just jam both wires into the same hole on the neutral bar?  Or a pigtail?

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