Post by nik on Oct 30, 2020 10:04:54 GMT -5
I'm just curios as to if or how people are tracking pass-thru versus 2-fered power loads. I'm thinking specifically of led fixtures. For the sakes of this example, lets say the fixture draws 2.6A, has a pass thru capacity of 12A, and my circuits are all 20A. In this situation I can put 7 fixtures on a circuit, so long as I put a 2-fer at the beginning with 4-fixtures on one leg and 3-fixtures on the other.
I can use a character suffix on it to distiguish which leg of a twofer it's on, ie 1a and 1b. This doesn't seem to interfere with the total load calcs on the "dimmer". It does not let me see the separate load for each leg of the two-fer. If I turn on Dimmer doubling for that rack I can see the loads on each leg of a two-fer. This opens up a whole different can of worms such as: max-load on each leg of two-fer is 1/2 of the dimmers max, limited to only using a 2-fer as opposed to a 3-fer, and more.
Using a point suffix, ie 1.1 and 1.2, still doesn't allow me to loads on each leg. Also when I ask to View 1.2 everything in 1.x is shown.
Any one have a different methodology that allows you track the total load on a dimmer and the total load on a pass thru? Preferably one that doesn't require double entering information such as copying the "dimmer" column info to the "circuit name" and using the circuit num to separate the legs of the twofer.
I can use a character suffix on it to distiguish which leg of a twofer it's on, ie 1a and 1b. This doesn't seem to interfere with the total load calcs on the "dimmer". It does not let me see the separate load for each leg of the two-fer. If I turn on Dimmer doubling for that rack I can see the loads on each leg of a two-fer. This opens up a whole different can of worms such as: max-load on each leg of two-fer is 1/2 of the dimmers max, limited to only using a 2-fer as opposed to a 3-fer, and more.
Using a point suffix, ie 1.1 and 1.2, still doesn't allow me to loads on each leg. Also when I ask to View 1.2 everything in 1.x is shown.
Any one have a different methodology that allows you track the total load on a dimmer and the total load on a pass thru? Preferably one that doesn't require double entering information such as copying the "dimmer" column info to the "circuit name" and using the circuit num to separate the legs of the twofer.