Southwire® Voltage Drop Calc Reviews – Page 2
4/5 rating based on 40 reviews. Read all reviews for Southwire® Voltage Drop Calc for iPhone.
Southwire® Voltage Drop Calc is free iOS app published by Southwire Company
Not applicable for Residential
res elec
Single phase, 240 volt, Aluminum, 100 amp, 200 feet run is not #2/0...
Bad
01wireman
Doesn’t work correct. does not calculate for being a CALCULATOR. they need to address or fix so not download
Bad app
powerbuddy
So bad hard to use don’t give you a lot of options Some times it just don’t work well like 50% of the time
Confused
Sandwichys
Wording is not deliberate enough and confusing when translating the end result. It should be just as simple as telling you the ampacity rating of a single wire after plugging in your distance, wire gauge, wire type, and which ambient temperature chart you will be using based on the NEC. Listing if it’s single or three phase and voltage inputs May or may not be important but if so then keep them. Don’t ask me to give you the amperage because your calculator should do that, it gets confusing if it’s asking me my overall intended amperage or the actual max amperage rating of the wire per NEC. For example- input your ambient temperature rating which most of us use the 75°C for most common applications. So if 10 awg THHN is rated at 35 amps at 75°C then I would expect the Calculator to read something like this- 75°C, 10 awg THHN (+ or x or whatever) at 200ft = 33 AMPS! So that just showed me that the ampacity rating just dropped by 2. That wasn’t a true equation of course, but I guess I was looking for something like that and then after giving the answer you could show the engineering breakdown for calculating the percentages or whatever and or maybe use tables that show you the decline of amperage at different footages? I’m not sure of the validity behind three-phase or single phase and maybe it is important but I would think a single wire by itself would have its own voltage drop after so many feet which would alter its ampcity rating?! But maybe it is important so just do the important stuff and then once you calculate that then maybe you have a Calculator to derate as these two calculations go hand and hand for sizing your wire (Circuit)