How many amps do we need to have on the home's supply? My home is a newer home and has 200 amp service. Lots of older homes around the US have 100 amp service or even smaller.
Is this furnace going to clamp onto the existing supply or do we need to get additional capacity into each home? If the system takes the place of the heat pump in the winter that's okay but what about the summer? You mean I'm going to have a furnace and an A/C unit fighting for electricity in my home?
Adding capacity isn't always as simple as calling up the electrician and adding a phase to the breaker box. Now we're stringing cables, digging up backyards, and running lines to transformers in neighborhoods (like mine) where the infrastructure explodes if a squirrel farts in the wrong direction (I'm looking at you, ComEd).
Is this furnace going to clamp onto the existing supply or do we need to get additional capacity into each home? If the system takes the place of the heat pump in the winter that's okay but what about the summer? You mean I'm going to have a furnace and an A/C unit fighting for electricity in my home?
Adding capacity isn't always as simple as calling up the electrician and adding a phase to the breaker box. Now we're stringing cables, digging up backyards, and running lines to transformers in neighborhoods (like mine) where the infrastructure explodes if a squirrel farts in the wrong direction (I'm looking at you, ComEd).