Fun Wiring A Breaker
On standard style breakers the circuit s neutral wire will be attached to the neutral bus bar in the panel.
Wiring a breaker. This should be located at the top of the breaker panel. Take the cover of the breaker box off. But on afci gfce or combination afci breakers the circuit s neutral wire will be connected directly to the breaker using a screw terminal labeled panel neutral or white note.
Wiring up a short stop auto reset circuit breaker. The white wire is used for hot in this circuit and it is marked with black tape on both ends to identify it as such. A neutral wire is not used in this circuit.
This circuit breaker wiring diagram illustrates installing a 20 amp circuit breaker for a 240 volt circuit. The 12 2 gauge cable for this circuit includes 2 conductors and 1 ground. 240 volt circuits have no white neutral wires since both circuit wires are hot wires.
Use an electrical tester by putting the tip of one probe against the ground bus bar and the other against one of the screws of a circuit breaker.