The way I judge it: If there's mostly gas appliances (and the demand calcs are in agreement) then I recommend 100A, otherwise I recommend 200.

A 150A service would cost more than a 200A here due to lack of available parts.

But yeah, Load Demand Calcs are pretty useless in residential around here except to decide between 100 or 200 (or 320) amp services.



[This message has been edited by sparky66wv (edited 08-25-2001).]


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