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Harry Macdonald:
You really do need to know who will do what with your sockets.
A number of years ago I was involved with a certain Opera House. At the end of the Commissioning of the systems we needed to test the air-conditioning at full load, i.e. simulate the heat given off by 2000+ seated people.
We did this by having a large number of 3kW fan heaters as well as some strings of 100W lamps distributed around the auditorium.
I suspect the diversity calculations didn't allow for all available ring mains to be fully loaded for several hours.
At the back of my mind is a figure of 100 W for a person, so that would be 200 kW. Wow!
Harry Macdonald:
You really do need to know who will do what with your sockets.
A number of years ago I was involved with a certain Opera House. At the end of the Commissioning of the systems we needed to test the air-conditioning at full load, i.e. simulate the heat given off by 2000+ seated people.
We did this by having a large number of 3kW fan heaters as well as some strings of 100W lamps distributed around the auditorium.
I suspect the diversity calculations didn't allow for all available ring mains to be fully loaded for several hours.
At the back of my mind is a figure of 100 W for a person, so that would be 200 kW. Wow!
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