Re: John T,,

Posted by ChadS on September 22, 2006 at 10:08:17 from (66.228.96.238):

In Reply to: Re: John T,, posted by John T on September 22, 2006 at 08:09:31:

Let me elaborate, Remc around here, they will put in service, which basicly means, they can get you off the road 125 feet, then after that, you pay to have your service connected, or wire it up yourself,, if you have the skills,, The meter, has a large breaker box right below the meter box,, a 400 amp service to feed the electrical demands of a grain bin, which is seperate from the house, but still under the same meter. What Im thinking is, since the main house breaker is below the meeter in this large breaker box, I can add another 100+ amp breaker and run a second line to the house, but into the furnace, so the furnace has its own wireing, and its own breaker away from the basic house circuit. On how I got the entire home with the furnace to run on a single 100 amp service,,, I dont know how,, it handles the amperage load, but it did,, I had an amp probe at the breaker box in the house, and at the pole,, surprizingly the whole thing pulled about 75 amps with the furnace running,, basic appliances,, deep freezer. fridge, etc etc,, the firnace is a Intertherm, has 4 heating grids, I unhooked the number 4 grid to keep it from going up to the normal 85 amp draw it normally takes to make the furnace run long enough to reach all of its limit switches to cycle,, it works great like this,, but this time, it could not get the breaker to hold it when it kicked up to the last stage to kick the high limit,,, which is around 65 amps with one grid shut down,, thats what gave it away that the breaker may have got struck by lightning. Ive known ever since I installed the furnace,,, that the service was inadequate, but I never got a chance to redo anything to make it better, safer and more efficient. I do belive that 100 amps is plenty, because it only holds up to 85-90 (all 4 grids working) for a short period of time, then it will shut off a grid and run less cause it had the chance to fully cycle on the first run. I dont run it with all 4, only 3 so it keeps the peak spike to around 65,, add the house to that, and at the same time, its really pushing the breaker to its peak, and thats not good. I think the problem is on my end,, but, I think Ill call em and have them check it all out before I do anything,,, Ive been around electrical for quite some time,,,, 4H, and I worked for a Millwright comapny, we put in "new at the time", GSI grain dryers, had to wire em up when possible. Never got shocked,,, never want to,, did that for years, now just relizing that what ive learned in the past is pretty useful,,, hopefuly. Great reply!! Alot of good info, and while Im wating for remc,, Ill read thru about 20 more times, and make sure I have not missed anything. Chad

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