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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thank you, electrician PP! Your numbers helped me make sense of some of the load calcs I’ve been doing while I wait for better info from the electricians. I think that with the additional 95A required for the AC (I’ve gone through the specs and the units are unfortunately the right size for our space), we don’t need the service upgrade but are right at the very edge of capacity. So we would need to be intelligent about not running a dryer and turning on the oven and every light when it’s 95 degrees out.

Fortunately we live out of the dmv now and we really only have a few weeks per year that are truly too hot to not have AC.

I found out this afternoon that the buried line may be in conduit based on when the city buried it. If it’s in conduit, then it’s not a big deal to upgrade but it will just be a long wait of 4-6 months. If it’s not in conduit, DH and I decided that we will not dig and we’ll just be hot and grumpy but have some money left to spend to make ourselves feel better. [/quote]

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