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Any electricians in the house?
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Ok, I understand better now. Yes, you probably don't have sufficient voltage to trigger the compressor. Sounds like you need that other leg from the power pole hooked up. Doesn't sound safe.
Quoting: TheGasMan II Thanks for the confirmation. I appreciate all the responses and it certainly puts my mind at ease. You are probably not getting enough amps either without that second leg. Compressors generally pull most of their amps for startup. Yes they do...10 gauge wire to my mini split 36000 btu MR Cool....But my 100 amp service runs it just fine....off a 40 amp breaker... My little electric box if topped off,with square QO ..With Tandems 20 amps all stuffed in it ... My father has a instant on water heater he hooked up with 2 40 amps going to the stand alone heater...on a 100 amp ...Works fine... But now since they got solar they upped him to 200 amp service ...so hes good.. But with my 100 amp service i have never had a problem running all my electric,My WELL,HEat Pump,Electric water heater ,My Sauna ,And all the other electric stuff i have running all the time...ITs been fine! I had my cousin come over an electrician and he looked at my panel and said you need a 200 amp service....this was 15 years ago...Its been fine so far no problems ...All wires in the house is all 12 Gauge since the house was built in the earlier ...they used all 12 gauge everywhere... Thats as much as i know,you should not have problems at all! With all the other lights, fridge, water heater, etc. running at the same time was my point. Maybe I did not word my response correctly but if all of those things are running at the same time the new unit tries to power up, you could have an amp shortage. I don't know the conditions of other items at the time of testing. But sooner or later, most will be running at the same time. Expect possible issues until you get the second leg, which will provide another 100 amps, hooked up.
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