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- From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
- Subject: Re: "balancing" a power panel
- Message-ID: <4094@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 03:43:57 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.175625.17689@phx.mcd.mot.com> <1992Dec30.201122.18677@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1993Jan1.005238.15689@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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- In article <1993Jan1.005238.15689@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> patter@dasher.cc.bellcore.com (patterson,george r) writes:
- |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>
-
- It was a trifle garbled tho.
-
- |>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.
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- Right.
-
- |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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- In fact, previous postings show that your area is the exception. Most
- places don't require this. Must make wiring really wierd. If you have
- more than a dryer, stove and kitchen, you'd have to have 300A or bigger
- services. My house would need a 600A main...
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