Originally Posted By: Ryan Jackson This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Hi Joe. I find it interesting that when I went to school (apprenticeship), they focused on the standard method. Since I have been inspecting, the optional method is all I ever see used. It typically gives you a much lower value than the standard method and therefore seems to be the method used by 99% of the electricians here in Utah.
Originally Posted By: jtedesco This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
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Originally Posted By: Ryan Jackson This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Utah has been on the 2002 for about a year and a half now. We will adopt the 2005 either July of 2005 or January 1 of 2006, I haven’t gotten a definite answer yet.
Originally Posted By: Mike Parks This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I am not trying to stir things up, but how is a load calculation within the scope of a ‘visual’ inspection?
How can, or why should, a home inspector, not being a licensed electrician or an electrical inspector, be evaluating an electrical system load capabilities?
Originally Posted By: tallen This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Mike,
I would hope that any GREEN HI (like myself)would know better than to try to figure the load calculations. Joe put that up there due to a post about someone asking if there were to many breakers in a panel and it just got out of hand. So, Joe gave an example of how a Sparky does LC's .
It could be that a lay person browsing this site might take it differently but I doubt it.
Thats what the SOP's are for.
-- I have put the past behind me,
where , however, it now sits, making rude remarks.
Originally Posted By: tallen This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Joe,
Put it back. It shows why the breaker total really has nothing to do with the load of a residential home. I think everyone is smart enough not to try and do LC’s If they do they are going way way out of line.
– I have put the past behind me,
where , however, it now sits, making rude remarks.