Summary: 2-pole circuits able to be combined under single branch circuit number.
Description: My company works on a lot of healthcare projects. Typically this involves OR's (operating rooms) that require isolated power panels. These isolated power panels typically have two pole circuits even for 120 volt branch circuit loads. To match how the panel is constructed we need the ability to have a 2-pole branch circuit only take up one branch circuit number. An example right now is if I circuit a 2-pole receptacle, the panel schedule takes numbers 1,3. The way that the isolated power panels are constructed and numbered would require the 2-pole circuit only to take circuit number 1. Square D literature on their isolated power panels indicate that they are 16-circuit panels (2-pole). Currently Revit makes it so I have to have a 32-circuit panel to actually have 16 2-pole circuits available for use.
Please grant me this wish and make another Electrical Settings option to combine multi-pole circuits under one-row and using a single branch circuit number. OR give use sparky's the ability in Revit to specify the number of Max. #1 pole, #2 Pole, and #3 pole breakers in the panel schedule properties. Something to that affect. Electrical circuiting is too limited still even in this latest version of Revit. We also need the ability to assign multiple circuits to items and tag separately without having to use wire...I could go on for quite a while...
thanks,
Product and Feature: Revit MEP - MEP Electrical Panel Schedule - (Electrical)
Submitted By: darren hess on 02/11/2015