Generally, you should install them on one leg. The reason is that both legs in the panel may not be the same voltage. One could be, say, 120V and the other 118V. If you put one circuit on each, then your equipment will have a 2V potential between them when plugged in. This could cause a ground loop through the interconnects, the equipment, the power cord and the wiring back to the panel. If you place the two circuits on one leg (matters not which) then the potential difference will always be zero. However, the length of both circuit wires to the breakers should be the same because a difference in resistance resulting from unequal lengths (ohms per foot) also causes a potental difference.
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