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This estimate is very liberal. The asaTsnption is made
that every house in the village will be wired for electricity. This
condition will not exist* A second assximption is made that at dinner
time and throu^ the early hours of the evening, each one of the ninety
residences will be burning four twenty-five watt tungsten lamps. This
community is composed of farmei^ - accustomed all their lives to kerosene
lamp light and most of them will probably be satisfied with one light
in the dinning room, one in the kitchen, one in the sitting room and
one on the porch; ^ich will all probably burn during the peak hour.
Other lights in bedrooms, bar»i^,etc,, will burn at off-peak-hours.
However - a few cases of extravagance in fixtures, etc., will rapidly
bring up the average - so that it is good practice in estimating the
load for lighting the residences in a village of this character to use
this figure of 100 watts per residence.
The estimate of 150 watts central station capacity for
business houses is very fair - when consideration is taken of the
type of business establishment tsrpical of the town. There are but few
concerns in the town which are progressive enou^ to illuminate their
stores in a modern manner. In these few stores, for estimating pur-
poses, the figure of one watt per square foot may be used; while in
most of the stores it is safe to figure that a light will probably
be used in each window with additional lights spaced ten or fifteen
feet apart down the center of the store.
Each church will present a separate problem, and an
accurate estimate of the load which they will supply can only be made
after detailed study of each has been made. However, the figure of
1500 watts for each churoh is close enou^ for determing the central
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