I recently moved to a condo in Chicago. There are 4 units in the building. Each unit has 100A service. The building itself has a separate 100A service for things like the garage doors and stairwell lights. All units have all gas appliances; the only 240V circuit is for the A/C. For some reason my unit has two 30A tandem breakers for the A/C. We only have one air conditioner, so I'm not sure why there are two circuits.
It would not be feasible to run a new connection from the breaker panel in my unit to the garage (or from any unit). But it would be relatively easy to run a circuit from the meter room (near the garage) to the garage. Each meter in the meter room has a disconnect switch next to it. I think I'd need an electrician to install a new panel by the meter, with a breaker for the car charger and a breaker for the condo unit - is that right? Then the existing panel in the unit would essentially become a subpanel.
I'd be happy with any level of 240V charging, but of course would need to do a load calc to see what I could support. Any thoughts from people?
The condo board (all four of us) are open to the idea and there may even be interest in building out circuits for each unit while we're at it.
It would not be feasible to run a new connection from the breaker panel in my unit to the garage (or from any unit). But it would be relatively easy to run a circuit from the meter room (near the garage) to the garage. Each meter in the meter room has a disconnect switch next to it. I think I'd need an electrician to install a new panel by the meter, with a breaker for the car charger and a breaker for the condo unit - is that right? Then the existing panel in the unit would essentially become a subpanel.
I'd be happy with any level of 240V charging, but of course would need to do a load calc to see what I could support. Any thoughts from people?
The condo board (all four of us) are open to the idea and there may even be interest in building out circuits for each unit while we're at it.