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Duplex Service load calculations

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Dengineer

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Location
new york
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Electrical Engineer
Hello everyone,

I’m trying to wrap my head around how to do service and feeder load calculations for duplexes, and I’d appreciate your insights.

To my understanding I should calculate the load for each unit using the standard single dwelling unit method to figure out the size for the main panels. Then, I would add both load summaries I calculated from each individual unit to get the service size for the entire building. Does this make sense?

Secondly, can I use 220.82 for each dwelling unit and then combine those calculations for the overall service size, assuming the main service and feeders to each unit are all over 100A?

Lastly, I know about 220.85, which allows for using 220.84 for duplexes, but my project is based on the 2011 NEC.

Thanks you! any help would be appreciated.
 
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