I already have a 200 foot roll of 12/2 PCS Duo for the dimming. Like I said. If I absolutely can’t do 240v I’ll run a MWBC to the switch and two runs of the PCS duo from the switch up to the ceiling boxes. I’m just hoping I will have enough wire for two runs and to all the fixtures. It’s going to be tight and the roll was $225.
That's odd since the amperage will be different depending on the voltage. 100 watts at 120 is .83 amp, 100 watts at 277 is .36 amps, 240 is .41. At what voltage are they telling you is .99 amps?I already have the lamps and I can’t return them. I got the .99 amps directly from a sticker on the box and the lamp itself.
PLT didn’t seem like a horrible brand nor 1000 Bulbs a disreputable vendor. At $50 for 14,000 lumens it seemed like a great value.
I’m not gonna lie, I like a lot of light. I want the lighting level of a big box store like Walmart.
You can use 240 volt. See posts 25 and 33.
If an inspector is looking for voltage on a lighting circuit, you were going to get failed anyway. If the workmanship is good and you have stuff like gfci where necessary, I bet it never comes up
Which this kind of lighting load usually is, but my point was at 80%, the breaker may trip upon inrush.
It's not a dwelling, it's an ag building. It doesn't have to be an industrial anything. It just can't be a dwelling. If it were an attached garage, it would be a different story so if you plan on connecting the barn and the house with a breezeway, get the inspection out of the way first
.Around here, nobody is that ****. The inspectors are too busy to look for things like that. This wouldn't even require an inspection here since it's ag, but if it were a non ag shop and in the country, I would have a state inspection, and he has nine counties to cover. That makes for lightning fast inspections. If I were to go one county North of me, the county has inspections in place but those guys don't know what they are looking at so they flip a light switch and test a couple of GFCI's and get on down the road.
highly unlikely. the trip curve is way higher than that
Never. Only had breakers trip from equipment overloading it. I do keep lighting separate for that reason though.
I've have seen it happen, more than once.
That's not how apparent power works. The fixture isn't burning 20 watts.
I've seen led drivers fail shorted, which trips the breaker. In the dark ages, incandescent bulbs could have a huge current when they blew out. (the last incandescent bulbs I used trip the breaker every time one of them burned out, which I remember because I was living in a third floor apartment w/ the panel in the basement...)
