ibew48matt
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- Vancouver, WA
I have a question that I am hoping the group can help me with. While preparing for my Washington Master Electrician Exam, I was going over some practice exams, and I ran across an issue that I can't work out.
The layout is a 30 unit condo building with a laundry facility on premises, and I am to use the standard method to determine the building service size. There are no electric dryers listed in either the units or the laundry facility, so I am assuming gas dryers. Seeing that there is a laundry facility that is not located in each individual unit, I did not add the 1500VA laundry circuit to each unit. I can find no guidance in the code book as to where to apply the laundry circuit (including in Annex D) but I know it must be there somehwere, right? The answer to the practice exam says that the 1500VA gets added as a house load at the end, and is not subject to any demand factors, so they added 30X1500VA, which seems rediculous, as there would be 375A worth of outlets for washers and gas dryers in a 30 unit condo.
Anybody have any ideas?
The layout is a 30 unit condo building with a laundry facility on premises, and I am to use the standard method to determine the building service size. There are no electric dryers listed in either the units or the laundry facility, so I am assuming gas dryers. Seeing that there is a laundry facility that is not located in each individual unit, I did not add the 1500VA laundry circuit to each unit. I can find no guidance in the code book as to where to apply the laundry circuit (including in Annex D) but I know it must be there somehwere, right? The answer to the practice exam says that the 1500VA gets added as a house load at the end, and is not subject to any demand factors, so they added 30X1500VA, which seems rediculous, as there would be 375A worth of outlets for washers and gas dryers in a 30 unit condo.
Anybody have any ideas?