[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 46, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 46CFR111.60-7]

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                           TITLE 46--SHIPPING
 
    CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 111--ELECTRIC SYSTEMS--GENERAL REQUIREMENTS--Table of Contents
 
              Subpart 111.60--Wiring Materials and Methods
 
Sec. 111.60-7  Demand loads.

    Generator, feeder, and bus-tie cables must be selected on the basis 
of a computed load of not less than the demand load given in Table 
111.60-7.

                      Table 111.60-7--Demand Loads
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            Type of circuit                        Demand load
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Generator cables......................  115 percent of continuous
                                         generator rating.
Switchboard bus-tie, except ship's      75 percent of generating
 service to emergency switchboard bus-   capacity of the larger
 tie.                                    switchboard.
Emergency switchboard bus-tie.........  115 percent of continuous rating
                                         of emergency generator.
Motor feeders.........................  Article 430, National Electrical
                                         Code.

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Galley equipment feeder...............  100 percent of either the first
                                         50 KW or one-half the connected
                                         load, whichever is the larger,
                                         plus 65 percent of the
                                         remaining connected load, plus
                                         50 percent of the rating of the
                                         spare switches or circuit
                                         breakers on the distribution
                                         panel.
Lighting feeder.......................  100 percent of the connected
                                         load plus the average active
                                         circuit load for the spare
                                         switches or circuit breakers on
                                         the distribution panels.
Grounded neutral of a dual voltage      100 percent of the capacity of
 feeder.                                 the ungrounded conductors when
                                         grounded netural is not
                                         protected by a circuit breaker
                                         overcurrent trip, or not less
                                         than 50 percent of the capacity
                                         of the ungrounded conductors
                                         when the grounded neutral is
                                         protected by a circuit breaker
                                         overcurrent trip or overcurrent
                                         alarm.
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