[left]Okay guys, I’m fairly certain I’m doing this correctly, but I thought I’d double check before flipping breaker on. I bought a Spark EV which allows up to a maximum 16 Amps of AC at 240v or about 3.8 kw to charge my new car. All of my single pole breakers are being used, which is why I decided to use the 50 amp double pole breaker currently wired to my Stove/Oven Nema 14-50 outlet. It’s currently a 4 wire 6 gauge setup with 2 hots, a neutral & a bare wire ground. Currently the Stove/Oven is gas, which means the range isn’t using the 50a outlet at all. Although I’d like to make it available to use if needed. I purchased the the exact same wire and cut the 6 gauge wire strand in the attic and installed a J-Box in the attic. I now have the black from the panel connected to the black going to the range and the black connected to the j-box near the EV charger. (All others are connected the same as well (Red, White & Ground)) I did this so that if I decide to buy a larger EV in the future, and needed more watts to charge with, it’ll still be available. The new J-Box in the garage now has 4 - 6 gauge wires coming into it, and are now connected to a 20 amp 240v outlet. I have the black & red wires connected to hot, and the bare wire connected to ground. The white neutral I have capped off. I’m assuming unless I decide to change the outlet to a larger outlet in the future, I shouldn’t need to connect the white wire... should I? Although, since the white wire is connected to neutral in the panel, does it need to be connected somehow? Or can it stay that way until I decide to use it in he future? Should I disconnect the white wire from the panel? Or should I keep it connected? Am I doing something wrong? Or am I correct in thinking I can just leave it as is with a wire nut on it until I plan on using it? Thanks guys![/left]

OK. So I bought my current house in 2016 and have been a little annoyed in that when I run a microwave and kettle from the same receptacle in my kitchen, I blow a breaker. On my panel board, the breaker is a double pole (breaker switches connected by a handle). I assumed it was a 3 way circuit on a split circuit outlet and that a separate circuit would power the top plug and another the bottom, and therefore I should not be tripping breakers like I do. When I take the outlet out of the box, I notice that the black is on one side, the white is on another and the red wire is alone NOT CONNECTED to anything with a wire nut on the end of it. The outlet is not split. Would anyone know why someone would do this. I am thinking that someone changed the outlet in the past and figured that they only needed to connect the black and white power wires, when setting up a receptacle, but did not know that this one was a split circuit. Definitely the outlets are not original to my 1984 built house. I would like to split it back up and it appears all I have to do is wrap the red wire around the brass outlet screw and snap off the little connector on that receptacle on the side that connects the two brass terminals connecting the black and red wires (let me know if there is more to it then that. I have never set up a split circuit before). I checked and the red wire is powered.