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- From: dwb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (david.boyle)
- Subject: Re: "balancing" a power panel
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.145747.3746@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- References: <1992Dec30.175625.17689@phx.mcd.mot.com> <C041s5.HrE@magpie.nycenet.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:57:47 GMT
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- In article <C041s5.HrE@magpie.nycenet.edu>, manes@magpie.nycenet.edu (Steve Manes) writes:
- > Fred Christiansen (fredch@phx.mcd.mot.com) wrote:
- > : What does "balancing" a power panel mean? Why is it necessary? How
- > : is it typically accomplished? Yes, I know I can ask my electrician,
- > : but the Net often has many gems of wisdom which I would not get from
- > : a non-talkative tradesman. Thx.
- >
- > Two legs of 110 VAC reside in your breaker box. A 220V breaker would
- > attach to both of them (110V + 110V = 220V). Your 110V breakers would
- > attach to one or the other of these legs. Balancing the panel means
- > not having, for instance, a 110V/20 amp wall heater and a 10 amp
- > refrigerator and a 15 amp freezer and all your kitchen outlets on
- > the same 110V leg inside the panel because, eventually, the heater
- > and the fridge and the freezer will all be running at the same time
- > (drawing peak 45 amps) and you will turn on your microwave and blow
- > out one side of your main breaker, bringing half the house into
- > darkness. You want to distribute the household load evenly between
- > each leg of 110v.
-
- I can understand the balancing part, in fact I'm going to take a look to
- see if I require some modifications myself, BUT how can you bring half
- your house into darkness? I only have 1 main breaker at the top of the box.
- Do you mean that the unbalanced side will trip all breakers on that side?
- Dave
-