Main Upgrade?

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Charlie Dill

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I'm about to do a large modification to the 2nd floor of my house. The existing Main is rated 100 Amps. Will I have to upgrade the main for San Jose, CA code? Thanks,
 
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Let me ask you to clarify your intended role in this project. If you are an electrical design engineer, then we can help you figure out what is needed. We can also offer opinions on whether your electrical contractor's proposed scope of work and costs are reasonable.

But if you are planning on doing the installation work yourself, then the Forum rules prohibit us from giving you any help. The reason for that policy is that we are concerned that you may get only the answer to the question that you ask, and get no answer to the thousand other questions that you should have asked, but did not know that you needed to ask. The thousand of other questions are the ones that electricians, electrical engineers, and other professionals in the electrical industry would have known about, and would have understood the answers to, as part of their years of training.
 
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I am curious how any house in san jose could get by with a 100A service in the first place. I would think the a/c required would push you past 100A pretty quick.
 
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Mr.moderator my thoughts exactly as I read the profile.Carlie don`t get us wrong but D.I.Y. questions should be directed to some where else.

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Edited to remove the referral to the other web site.

Aside to Allenwayne: Thank you for providing the web site for a DIY to find information. However, I have deleted that reference.

You would not have had a way to know this, but two years or so ago the Moderators discussed with Mike Holt the question of whether we should provide an alternate web site for the DIYs who visit here. We decided not to. Our reasoning was something along the lines of the following:

A DIY asks us a question, gets told to visit this other site instead. He goes to that site, gets an incomplete answer, builds something incorrectly, and someone gets hurt. In the court case, he says that he was told to visit that site by the MHE forum. The court concludes that MHE should have known that the other site would be a poor source of information. Since the DIY got bad information from that other site, MHE is considered negligent for having sent the DIY to that site.

[ October 05, 2005, 06:53 PM: Message edited by: charlie b ]
 
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