Length of circuit to begin applying voltage drop calculations

If you have experience with energy monitoring in residential units, you will have a pretty strong 'seat of the pants' feel for the energy use of a residential apartment. Article 220 calculations for residential units are very conservative and routinely give numbers quite a bit larger than the real peak consumption.

Things like EV charging are changing this math, but I doubt the OP has EV chargers in the apartments.

My _guess_ is that these panels will _never_ see more than 50A of load, and will only rarely see even 30A of load. But that is a pure _guess_. But I agree, the article 220 calculated load is what should be used for the VD analysis, simply for lack of better information.
Check out 90.1(B). Maybe the owner wants more, was willing to pay more, and expects more.
 
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