Loose-Caboose posted:PS. If an electrician came to me and said that it is a great idea to burn two circuit breaker positions in my box so that, I can't even imagine Why he would say that. The only reason I could envision is if the room was huge and had an ungodly number of outlets required to maintain the minimum separation between outlets, then maybe. Other wise I thing I would be asking the electrician to gather his tools and depart.
Actually, there's a fairly good reason for having outlets on either side of the 230 feed. If you put excessive loads all on one side of the 230 feed, the neutral current goes way up. Not only is this undesirable, but it's also costly, you're throwing away energy. 
