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- From: patter@dasher.cc.bellcore.com (patterson,george r)
- Subject: Re: "balancing" a power panel
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 00:52:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.005238.15689@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- References: <1992Dec30.175625.17689@phx.mcd.mot.com> <1992Dec30.201122.18677@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec30.201122.18677@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> cthorne@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Charles E Thorne) writes:
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- <Lots of good stuff about balancing a panel>
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- >Now, say you have a 100 amp main breaker. You will have more than a total
- >of 100 individual circuit amps. The 220 circuits aren't a problem since
- >each one take half off of each side. The 110 circuits need to be balanced
- >so that at any point only 50 amps is being used from each side.
-
- Uh - if you have a 100 amp main breaker, you can pull 100 amps off each
- side.
-
- In this area of the country, the total of each side's breakers cannot
- exceed the size of the main breaker by law. Previous postings on this
- subject indicate that this is not a universal code.
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- | It could probably be shown by facts and figures
- George Patterson - | that there is no distinctly native American criminal
- | class except Congress.
- | Samuel Clemens
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