Finding General Lighting Load for Dwellings

Published 2018-05-24
This video will give you an understanding of how to find the General Lighting Load for a Single Family Dwelling.

The 3 things we need to know:
1) Square footage of the dwelling
2) How many Small Appliance circuits (Must be a Minimum of 2)
3) How many Laundry circuits (Must be a Minimum of 1)

Art. 220.52(A) for small appliances must be 1500va for each circuit.

Art. 220.52(B) for laundry must be at 1500va for each circuit.

Table 220.42 Explained
The first 3000va must be taken at 100%
The next be taken at 35% up to 117,000va
If there is any remainder t