Is This Panel At Capacity?

[@TheTubejunky]

Next video "How to make load calculations" you're welcome.

[@user-gz4ve8mw9l]

Hopefully I'm interested in learning.

[@VE3AVA]

A great suggestion. Our code book (I'm in Ontario) has very specific breakdowns, but like most legal speak, without interpretation or examples it seems more difficult than it needs to be. But the concept of continuous load and how to strategize a service would be a triumph of content.

[@scarecrow1490]

You're already on youtube. Look up how to do electrical panel load calcs.

[@allenshepard7992]

He is right. Also a 15 lighting circuit may only have 5 amps on it. Dryer can be 30 amps - but like an oven it cycles. TESLA charger is different. Know that sucker runs at 30/40 Amp full bore for hours. depending on charging.

[@dstevans]

20 years ago a dozen 100 watt incandescent lights would nearly max out the 15 amp circuit...but nowadays a dozen LED's barely take an amp or two.

[@SRCardow1]

More like 50 to 60 amps circuits.

[@patricklegault6383]

i agree. i used a circuit monitoring devices as i was worried in the begining for overloading my 200A main... i maxed my panel at 170Amp during winter. dryer + stove + hot water tank + boiler (water floor heater). when everything runs at the same time. you might hit close to it. so i contacted my boiler provider and disabled half the heater elements and im no longer worried about busting the main breaker capacity :p

[@VE3AVA]

Interesting solution. Have you noticed any practical disadvantages in your boiler use? Curious

[@patricklegault6383]

@@VE3AVA not really as the boiler is oversized for the house. the only difference is it takes a few more minutes to bring the water to temperature for the floor heating but since the concrete slab need low temperature it is fine. the boiler was turning on/off too often due to reaching the max temperature too quickly. by disabling the elements. the boiler ran longer without cycling and eliminated some power spike. so at the end. this changed nothing on my end as the concrete slab (water heating) keep the temperature for quite some time due to thermal mass

[@raymond3722]

Explanation with clarity.

[@jenniferm5375]

Dustin you bring so much into the industry with your knowledge God bless you!

[@brad885]

which is why I subbed my house with a 100 amp panel. I left 200 amps outside in the main for the garage/farm/dedicated outdoor crap.

[@modquad18]

Dude man knows a lot about loads 👍🏽

[@mcouture8169]

The electrical, HVAC, and plumbing industry could use an honest company.

[@redneckcoder]

Blew my main breaker for my apartment. Electric heater, dryer, oven and range were all on. I’d shut the heater off… because cooking. Someone else turned it on cuz she was cold and of course wouldn’t put on a sweater until all the cooking warmed things up. Main breaker… was outside. 100ft away. In subzero with high winds and snow piled in front of it.

[@tommywatterson5276]

Code book explains load demand calculations to size services. The costs between electrical panels is getting minimal in residential uses, you might as well just go ahead and put the 200 amp in. Commercial is another story. Industrial is another story. Sub station outside of a plant to run everything and all the multiple services inside the plant to run this and that is the ultimate.

[@JerrodLandon]

Could he make a Short or a Video that could at least do an overview or does it get really complex?

[@psywiped]

Get a 225a so it's good for a sustained 180a load

[@juandelgado150]

Thanks for the info 👍 appreciate it

[@starlinater10]

Man, i soo wish I could work with this man even for just a week, (for free). Even if its just to pick his brain. Love your channel man. 🙏🏽

[@cameronramirez776]

50 amp furnace is crazy more like 5-10 amps. The blower motor is rated to like 5.5

[@tommywatterson5276]

@@cameronramirez776 he probably meant heat pump referencing furnace in general. Heat pumps, yea, they can get into high amp situations for residential in the cold months engaging the emergency heat strips to assist the compressor.

[@cameronramirez776]

@ you’re probably right, seems like furnace is becoming a broad term for all systems. The area i work in people still get confused when you don’t specify the two

[@DeathIncarnate306]

Nice. I need a new panel. Almost all the breakers are the mini half thickness ones and it's over capacity. 😅

[@psywiped]

Just need to add a sub panel as long as the amps aren't at capacity.

[@DeathIncarnate306]

@psywiped I'll replace the whole thing.

[@DavidBerquist334]

The outlet next to the dryer doesn't look like a outlet or house hold or commercial

[@psywiped]

EU socket.

[@danielg2754]

Wow. Pretty basic stuff. I guess not common knowledge so I guess it’s appropriate. Your videos as always appreciated.

[@MichaelJCaboose013]

Load calcs are really just a good estimate. Some AHJs will also make up their own methodology on how load calcs should be done leading to some wild estimates. Only truly accurate home load calc is to use the utility's API data to see real usage.

[@jfw851]

This panel is clean 😮 Wowzyyy 🎉🎉❤❤.

[@kaboom4679]

I'm not out of capacity , but , still need a new panel . Federal Pacific . Nuff said .

[@alexkimmel386]

Could be a zinsco lol

[@dstevans]

If you have FPE you better GET FPE (Fire Protection Equipment)

[@jminor355]

Only thing a breaker does is say these wire can only handle this much before its not safe. I don't appreciate the industry as a whole using breakers with questionably high amp ratings for the size of wiring.

[@anatolytsinker5317]

What. Who does that

[@psywiped]

If they do it's not to code.

[@davidicousgregorian]

A lot of people don't explain and don't need to explain to homeowners that the electrician that comes in analyzes all your circuits available and adds up all the wattage and then figures out how much do you need all at once if ever used all at once and bases the panel on that

[@davidicousgregorian]

What happens if you have every outlet used at 100 volts and all your machines running at the same time with all your lights on at the same time will it trip the circuit I've never had to do that but somebody did do that once and they used every single plug in their house at once and during a party had all the lights on plus the washing machine the dryer in the dishwasher and the disposal all running to see if it would trip

[@patrickodonnell81]

Turn on all the lights, the oven, microwave, heat, everything. Let's see what you're drawing. We'll go from there.

[@danlux4954]

Good thing I upgraded from 225A to 400A.

[@jdewitt-pn9kr]

50 amps on a furnace??

[@psywiped]

Heat pump or electric furnace.

[@jeffadams9042]

Demand factor.

[@ilenastarbreeze4978]

.... not sure whatcha mean by pc being a low load as i believe my pc alone is closer to a dryer when its gaming :p

[@psywiped]

Not till it's using all 200a or 54 circuits 😂

[@wr6392]

50 amps for a furnace?? Ummmmmmm

[@davidicousgregorian]

That's why electricians should get paid what they expect because they have to do all that load calculation otherwise they're like the people that work with my crew who don't even twist the wires before they put the caps on and I know those guys are idiots and lazy

[@chrisrageNJ]

Haahaahahahahaaaa 50 amps on my furnace, bro it's oil, it's got a fan and the transformer. I'd be surprised if it pulls 20 amps

[@mannys9130]

Lots of folks have an electric resistive heater. Lots of folks also have resistive emergency heat on their heat pump systems for those days when it's so cold the heat pump can't extract any heat from outside and just constantly freezes up. Those resistive heating elements draw a TON of current, so much so that they need sequencer devices to turn on and get to temp one at a time to avoid popping a breaker.

[@rickyal9810]

@@mannys9130 but that is an electric heater or a heat pump. A furnace burns fuel i.e. oil or gas and would not pull 40-50 amps. That being said I'm sure he just misspoke and just didn't want to reshoot the video.

[@davidicousgregorian]

But then again if you try and teach someone that don't know nothing about electrical then you're going to confuse them anyway so stop teaching other than what you do for us electricians which is helpful 😊

[@seanb2604]

80 % of 200 amps.

[@colbysellers5217]

You make a short but talking about what needs to happen but you never actually explain how or what to do. Thanks. Clear as mud

[@weaselking1367]

no eh hmmm good luck, in that time of use its getting hot keep repeating thermal loading nice surprise after a while