Cool 😎 to know so does both amp readings be added to get the total load on the main breaker or do you devide them by two I’m curious
@mikeriverajr4447
4 жыл бұрын
i was hoping you would answer the million dollar question, how do you measure the total amps for the entire breaker panel, for 240 devices you only measure 1 leg [8a x 240 = 1920 watts] for 120 devices you measure one leg to neuetral, and then the neutral carries the imbalance between the 2 loads, so in other words you have 28 on one leg 22 on the other leg and lets say 5-9 on the neutral , the question is how do you read this for a true total amps. . i have searched high and low is what is the formula to take these 3 numbers and calcullate the total amps or watts ? if you know the answer id reaaly appreciate it
@BariumCobaltNitrog3n
2 жыл бұрын
You probably got your answer but you don't add the two hots together. A two pole 30 Amp breaker for a 220 appliance will show the same amperage on both hots, say 22 amps on that appliance. It is using 22 amps. It's like if you read the current flowing through a single pole circuit on the hot and the neutral, and it was the only circuit, both wires, hot and neutral would say the same. A 220 volt 2 pole appliance simply has another hot as its return path. If you connected that same appliance to a 110 breaker it would read 44 amps, so the power is the same (watts or power)
@foxfetterworth7942
2 жыл бұрын
Mike Rivera Jr., here's your 240v answer plain and simple: Use a clamp-around amp meter to read each of the two hot service entrance cables in your main electric panel. The higher of the two results is the number of amps -- 240v AND 120v -- your house is consuming at the moment you took the readings. Why is that? It's because your main panel has a white neutral connected to the transformer on the power pole. That neutral carries 120v current RETURNING to the transformer. Your total amperage will almost certainly contain some 120v current. If you want to check the amperage of a running 240v appliance, check ONLY one leg and that's the total amps the appliance is drawing. That's because whatever amperage the appliance is drawing is the same amperage it's sending out -- a single flow. Just remember: if there's a white neutral (and that will ONLY be in the main panel), the highest of the two legs will be the total. No neutral (any 240v appliance) either leg is the total. BTW: People are constantly calling the white wire from a 120v appliance a "neutral." Technically, it is NOT a neutral; It's a "return" to the neutral in the main panel, which then "returns" it to the transformer.
@np5687
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you that was great !
@BariumCobaltNitrog3n
2 жыл бұрын
You might also consider a sub panel if all your wiring is in good shape/
@leeway2119
3 жыл бұрын
Classic asbestos wrapped wiring...my favorite..
@elvizhernandez4305
2 жыл бұрын
you get 100 amps per phase correct?
@GPSINC.
2 жыл бұрын
That panel should be condemned. Neutrals and grounds together…?
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