Daniel
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Heres the scoop. my house has a fuse box, yep old house.
as fuse boxes go they seem to have been built custom for each house and never have room to expand.
in order to get electrical to my shop I have to decide how I will tie into this box.
the shop will have 4-15 amp curcuits and one 220
so far I have thought of.
1. simply running 10 ga wire from one of the 220 fuses already in the box to my shop. this woudl give me a 30 amp 220 to my shop that could then be connected to a breaker box.
2. installing a sub panel at the house with 0/2 wire directly to the mains making allowing me to run a 100 amp curcuit to the shop. this would require running whatever size wire is needed to the shop through a 1 inch conduit for about 50 feet. not sure how large a whire will fit in that. but I'm thinking at least two 0/2 wires and a ground wire. not sure it can be done.
I can make the connections, where I lack knowledge is in design.
as in what can I do and what I shouldn't do. what size wires are needed etc. I don't really like the idea of tying into an existing 220 curcuit as they are generally ment to service only one appliance etc. not sure how running a parallel curcuit effects that.
I don't like the idea of having only 30 amps for my whole shop either actually I don't know if that is enough or not. I have ran my entire shop from a 20 amp before but that was out of having nothing else.
I prefer to do the sub panel thing but am not sure I could get the heavy wire through the conduit. I don't mind having to work hard at it but is it even possible?
my last resort is to actually have the power company run a feed to the shop.
any and all suggestons are welcome. but please remember I need the design specs. like wire sizes and exactly where to connect them. I do a lot of rewiring and repairing itc. but this is all stuff that has already had all the thinking done for me. designing I have found out is a whole other animal.
as fuse boxes go they seem to have been built custom for each house and never have room to expand.
in order to get electrical to my shop I have to decide how I will tie into this box.
the shop will have 4-15 amp curcuits and one 220
so far I have thought of.
1. simply running 10 ga wire from one of the 220 fuses already in the box to my shop. this woudl give me a 30 amp 220 to my shop that could then be connected to a breaker box.
2. installing a sub panel at the house with 0/2 wire directly to the mains making allowing me to run a 100 amp curcuit to the shop. this would require running whatever size wire is needed to the shop through a 1 inch conduit for about 50 feet. not sure how large a whire will fit in that. but I'm thinking at least two 0/2 wires and a ground wire. not sure it can be done.
I can make the connections, where I lack knowledge is in design.
as in what can I do and what I shouldn't do. what size wires are needed etc. I don't really like the idea of tying into an existing 220 curcuit as they are generally ment to service only one appliance etc. not sure how running a parallel curcuit effects that.
I don't like the idea of having only 30 amps for my whole shop either actually I don't know if that is enough or not. I have ran my entire shop from a 20 amp before but that was out of having nothing else.
I prefer to do the sub panel thing but am not sure I could get the heavy wire through the conduit. I don't mind having to work hard at it but is it even possible?
my last resort is to actually have the power company run a feed to the shop.
any and all suggestons are welcome. but please remember I need the design specs. like wire sizes and exactly where to connect them. I do a lot of rewiring and repairing itc. but this is all stuff that has already had all the thinking done for me. designing I have found out is a whole other animal.