If you don't know much about circuit breakers and what they look like, you might not know right away if you are working with a double pole breaker. Double pole breakers provide higher voltage than single pole breakers but the differences between the two are quite apparent when you know how to spot them. \
Double pole breakers consist of two side-by-side single pole breakers. Rather than a single slim column with numbers and slots, a double pole breaker has two such columns. \