<div dir="auto"><div>Yes, basically just verifying that the loads will not exceed the busbar rating, with some safety factor/cushion based on judgement and available data. For example, in a controlled industrial situation with years worth of 15-minute demand data showing consistent demand, a relatively small cushion. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Blake<br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 14, 2025, 1:14\u202fPM Jennifer Crawford via RE-wrenches <<a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org">re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Has anyone actually seen an engineer-supervised design for a busbar with multiple power sources & loads? I'm looking at 705.12-B-6, or similar depending on which code cycle we're talking about. What specifically were they checking, and did they reference any
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