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[lviper]

I placed a phase bridging capacitor in my circuit breaker panel. Connected to 2 adjacent single pole breakers so that each side is connected to a separate hot leg in the panel.

Did you do this with empty dedicated to the coupler breakers? Or did you do this to breakers already being used for circuits in the house. Meaning they are not dedicated to the coupler, they have loads on them.

Could a person use the capacitor between the hot legs of a 220v breaker for the dryer?

[Brian H]

Was the capacitor rated for across AC power line use?
If not we have had reports of some shorting out.

[rjniles]

I am the one who put the bridging capacitor across 2 single pole breakers in the breaker panel. I am also the one who reported the first capacitor I used blew up and tripped the breaker. I have since replaced the capacitor and have not any re-occurrence. The breakers i used are the breakers for my 2 bathrooms. The capacitor is the ones I bought on line from an 1-10 vendor for that specific purpose, so I assume (maybe wrongly) they are rated for the voltage.

You could bridge them across a 2 pole breaker also (like a dryer breaker) but you have to pigtail the leads into the breaker as they are only rated for one wire.

Update:  2 days ago the second capacitor blew up and tripped the breakers. Not sure what the issue is but I am going to try a different type phase coupler.

[Brian H]

Well the first one may have just been a defective one.