Commercial transformers have a hell of a lot more head capacity. Codes and standards when doing panel calculations don’t care about off peak in most places. And unless it has a proper timer, you can’t remove it from calculations on an intermittent basis.
2 houses on the same transformer in a dated neighborhood and it needs to be replaced with a new one. You can plan ahead all you want, but you can’t plan for that at all. And every single one of those requests will push back planned upgrades.
We had entire neighbourhoods go from oil furnaces and either 50A or 100A services to electric heat with 200A services. Yeah, equipment got upgraded, that’s how it works. Where did I say otherwise?
And you certainly can plan for that. People are doing it as we speak.
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Commercial transformers have a hell of a lot more head capacity. Codes and standards when doing panel calculations don’t care about off peak in most places. And unless it has a proper timer, you can’t remove it from calculations on an intermittent basis.
2 houses on the same transformer in a dated neighborhood and it needs to be replaced with a new one. You can plan ahead all you want, but you can’t plan for that at all. And every single one of those requests will push back planned upgrades.
So no, it’s not the same at all.
We had entire neighbourhoods go from oil furnaces and either 50A or 100A services to electric heat with 200A services. Yeah, equipment got upgraded, that’s how it works. Where did I say otherwise?
And you certainly can plan for that. People are doing it as we speak.
When it’s planned it’s fine. You can’t plan for when random citizens get them and it just so happens a swatch of them are in the same place.
Those sometimes get put to the top of list, and there’s no planning for that….