Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Jbryantmou-at-aol-dot-com> Does it have to be a "switch" necessarily. Would a circuit breaker with that rating work just as well. For 240, they usually take two 120's and pin them together so when one is tripped, it trips the other one as well. There's no reason (functionally) that you couldn't use them as a switch.