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>on the other hand, if you're building an apartment building in brazil or a hotel in costa rica, there's nothing stopping you from including an 80-amp circuit i
by yourusername 2y ago
>on the other hand, if you're building an apartment building in brazil or a hotel in costa rica, there's nothing stopping you from including an 80-amp circuit in every bathroom for the electric shower.
Do these countries not have any limit on the current in a circuit?
Over here we're not allowed more than 16A in residential use and that's over 2.5 mm^2 wires. What kind of conductors do they use in Brasil for 80A circuits?
- kragen 2y agoi'm not familiar with brazilian regulations but normally 80 amps would be about 3-gauge, 26mm². you can bend it with your bare hands if you get the stranded stuff. here in argentina people are evidently a lot more lax than that, so maybe in brazil they are too, but clearly you need at least 12mm²