Can I use both black and red wires for different outlets?

[Maxdub]

I have romex 14/3 running in my shop on a 15 amp breaker. The back wall of my shop has outlets on the left and the right with the power feed in the center of the wall coming into a junction box. Can I use the black wire for the left side of the outlets and the red for the right side and both wires be connected at the same 15 amp breaker on the same pole? The neutral runs through all the outlets and if I’m understanding everything correctly that’s not a case of neutral sharing two different circuits, it’s basically the same thing just that the power splits off to one side. I couldn’t find anything on it, but I think this is called wiring both of them in parallel, right?

 

[westward10]

I have moved this to the US forum hopefully @Megawatt will pick up on it.

 

[Megawatt]

I have romex 14/3 running in my shop on a 15 amp breaker. The back wall of my shop has outlets on the left and the right with the power feed in the center of the wall coming into a junction box. Can I use the black wire for the left side of the outlets and the red for the right side and both wires be connected at the same 15 amp breaker on the same pole? The neutral runs through all the outlets and if I’m understanding everything correctly that’s not a case of neutral sharing two different circuits, it’s basically the same thing just that the power splits off to one side. I couldn’t find anything on it, but I think this is called wiring both of them in parallel, right?

Do you have a panel in your shop, if so it is against code to put 2 wires under 1 screw. Yes you could split the black wire to one side and red for the other side. You need to add another 15 amp breaker for this application. If your using black and red it sounds like if you measured the voltage between red and black that would probably be 240vac. In that case you can not share the neutral. As it is right now my advice would be leave the wires alone. Yes it is wired in parallel