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Originally Posted by TAKPAK
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Well, I will probably PO a few people, but you do NOT have a total of 100 amps, only 50 amps, available on each leg. Look at the breaker, it is not a 100 amp breaker, it's two 50's. …………..
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First I will say I am not PO’d.
But I will say you do in fact have the POTENTIAL of 100 amps. It is possible to draw up to 50 amps on hot leg 1. And simultaneously draw up to 50 amps on hot leg 2. And not trip the breaker. So with a perfectly balanced loading where half your devices are drawing from hot leg 1 and the other half are drawing from hot leg 2, you can in fact draw a COMBINED total of up to 100 amps, 12,000 watts power, at 120 vac.
And interestingly enough, at a perfectly balanced load on the two hot legs there would be no current flow thru the neutral wire.
