In article , ~^Johnny^~ wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:34:35 -0500, wrote:

That's one thing people often do not understand. If you have a 100A
service and only use 120V items in the house, you can actually draw
200A.


No way.

Your total load calc may be 200 A at 120 V, but you are still
pulling 100 amps. You've got two 120 volt loads in series, that's
all. You are STILl pulling 100 amps at 240 volts.

Which is exactly the same electrical power as 200A at 120V.

Since the individual loads are in series/parallel, they share half teh
voltage, so the total load calc comes out to 200 amps, but only 100
amps are flowing through the service. Really.

100A at 240V -- and, as noted above, if only 120V loads are in use, the total
current draw is (up to) 200A at 120V.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.