Can you get any reduction from 8-106 (3), (4), (5) or (8)?
twh, that depends...
8-106(5) states "Where a feeder supplies loads of a cyclic or similar nature such that the maximum connected load will not be supplied at the same time, the ampacity of the feeder conductors shall be permitted to be based on the maximum load that may be connected at any one time."
So, for instance, can we make the argument to a plans examiner or inspector that in a commercial kitchen only 1 out of 5 coffee brewers would be running at a time? This is assuming that we could argue that a coffee brewer runs in a cyclic manner.
If so, this seems like we can almost cherry pick what loads we will include in our demand calcs. Perhaps I'm just too used to the stringency/specifics of the NEC.
Any thoughts?
