Practice house facts
Maple Street practice house
One dwelling · 120/240 V, single phase
Floor area
Outside-dimension areas, measured separately:
- Living area
- 2,000 ft²
- Attached garage
- 400 ft²
- Detached garage
- 300 ft²
- Open porch
- 200 ft²
Installed circuits
- Small-appliance circuits
- 2 installed · 20 A, 120 V each
- Laundry circuit
- 1 installed · 20 A, 120 V
No circuit exceptions are used.
Four fixed appliances
Fastened in place, same service, each rated at least 500 W. Listed VA are electrical-input loads, with motor bases already included.
- Storage water heater
- 4,500 VA
- Dishwasher
- 1,200 VA
- Disposal
- 800 VA
- Trash compactor
- 1,500 VA
Other equipment
- One electric dryer
- 4,500 VA nameplate
- One household range
- 14 kW
- Resistance space heat
- 8,000 VA
- Air conditioning, total
- 6,000 VA
- EVSE input nameplate
- 48 A at 240 V
Listed equipment prevents heating and cooling from running together. No heat pump, shared HVAC blower, extra heat, PCS credit or other separate loads.
Motor information
Use these applicable motor loads, already determined under Articles 430/440. Each motor base is inside its equipment load; no extra motor allowance has been included yet.
- Dishwasher motor
- 300 VA
- Disposal motor
- 800 VA
- Trash compactor motor
- 600 VA
- Dryer motor
- 500 VA
- AC compressor
- 4,000 VA
The disposal and compressor are larger than 1/8 hp. All other motors are smaller than the disposal motor. Appliance motors remain available in either HVAC operating set.