Comments by "SeanBZA" (@SeanBZA) on "Home Electrification: There's not a lot to do, and it doesn't have to be hard (Part 1)" video.

  1. 100A service is a massive power capability, here by me the standard is 60A, and generally the only time you are going to trip it is if you have 8 individual AC units running flat out in summer, which is not that common in a residential setting. Business, running out of a converted house, will get there, but the easy solution is to go first to 80A service (just a change of breaker and meter, as the wiring is rated for 100A anyway, set by the supplier regulations and the supply side fuse), till you have to install the new cable and go for a 3 phase 60A supply, which will run a small industrial unit perfectly fine. Very rare not to be able to get 3 phase power, you really have to be rural, and far out, as the standard is a 3 wire 11kV or higher distribution cable, as the losses are lower, though many farms went with a single phase, as they have to buy the cable, so plenty went for the cheap option of 11kV SWER supply, as you only need a single cable, and a giant buried ground mat at the transformer, saving a lot on the cable cost. Does mean you also get single phase AC motors up to 22kW, biggest you can run off a 60A supply, as power source for pumps in rural areas, and a lot of farms have a good deal of 11kV wiring, contactors and transformers, owned by the farm, or leased from the electric authority, with a single meter at the connection point to measure power. But in cities, or close to them, standard is 3 phase power, and houses are fed from a single phase, which is plenty enough for 95% of all houses, unless you have the multi million dollar houses, where you need a 3 phase supply, because your electric bill is sitting north of $20k per month.
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