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> phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote:
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> Roy & Phil
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> May I ask why you would want to raise the cost of constructing housing
> without any gain in actual utility of the installed system.
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> You are advocating the installation of 2400 VA circuits to serve
> distributed loads that are less than 1000 VA. The code's present
> requirement is the provision of three volt/amperes per square foot of
> finished space for general lighting and receptacle circuits. There is
> no evidence that this is in fact inadequate. If your resources and
> preferences permit you to build to a higher standard I have no problem
> with that. But when you try to impose a gold plate standard on the
> construction of the entirety of the nations future housing stock and
> thus insure that more people will never be able to own their own home I
> have to believe you have something to gain by pricing more families out
> of the housing market. Are you heavily invested in rental property? If
> not why do you want to limit access to housing by making it less
> affordable without any improvement in actual utility or safety to
> justify the cost increase? Were is the circuit loading that would
> justify the cost of twenty ampere circuits to power clock radios, table
> lamps and cell phone chargers. Why not standardize on one hundred
> ampere circuits with all outlets protected by individual outlet breakers!