Electric furnace wired breaker calculation (canada)

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Hi, can anybody walk me through on the CEC side on figuring out the breaker and wire size for a 240V, 15.7kW electric furnace. I am an electrician and have not worked on residential for a while.
Thank you.
 
electricalguy said:
Hi, can anybody walk me through on the CEC side on figuring out the breaker and wire size for a 240V, 15.7kW electric furnace. I am an electrician and have not worked on residential for a while.
Thank you.
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You need 3 conductor with a ground # 8 wire and a 40 amp double pole breaker
 

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