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Originally Posted by john70t
I'd gotten the rentals re-wired with a 20amp in the kitchen (blenders/micro), bathroom (hair drier), bedroom (space heaters/window AC), and living rooms. Separate legs for the big stuff. New 110amp sub panels in the apartments.
They cleaned up a bunch of stuff in the meantime and were there a while. It needed to be done.
New tenant had an outage recently. Electric stove burners, plus oven, plus tv were running but the individual breakers didn't trip which freaked me out. Then tenants admitted the space heater was going as well. It turns out the main shut-off for that apt is only 60amp (electrician check the operation) so that was the weakest chain in the system but it worked as it should. I've got a new stove on order just to be safe.
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Even with 60 amps, it should be better and safer to have all those separate with different breakers, but if a load calc is performed, it might bounce due to the amount of curcuits. I would have changed that to a 100 amp or 200 out here since 100 amps is no longer allow in most cities as far as I know. we don't even try or think about 100 amp panels anymore.