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In my dad's shop I wired it with 2 separate circuits and dasiy chained an outlet for each on all 4 walls. There is a 30a circuit and a 50 amp circuit. Then the compressor (7.5hp 80gal) has its own circuit and then I wired another circuit to the ceiling in the event he ever gets a lift. (He...

I'm already set up for the 400amp upgrade with the elect company. They have already dropped off tht 400amp meter base. So I'll have more than I'll ever need at the house, and enough power for whatever I end up with running. In the shop and the wife's eventual green house

I thought about doing 200amp service and splitting it 100/100 but with the shop I'm planning for the future. As it would be now the plasma pulls 50amps peak and the air compressor kicking on while the plasma is arced is absolutely going to happen. The start up amperage on the compressor I...

This panel I posted the link too is an enclosed circuit breaker with 8 circuit spaces and fees thru lugs

So this should be perfect then. At least for the house side it's got feed thru lugs, 8 spaces for circuit breakers, it's designed for exterior use and also marked suitable for service equipment. Your friend has shared a link to a Home Depot product they think you would be interested in...

So it has to be a fused disconnect?

That's not a bad idea. I was wondering if I could do that. So I should be able to buy a disconnect box that will also have a couple breaker spaces so I can run exterior plugs for the yard? That would be perfect

So I've started on my new shop and I'm looking at my electrical service options. I believe I want to go with the 400a (actually 320a) service to a meter panel by the pole (they call it a farm panel) and feed 200a to the house and 200a to the shop. But here is my question. I have a diagram...

Have a picture? How long is the wall? Have any idea what's below the wall? Footing? Depth?

I'm doing the same kind of thing. But I'm keeping the block about 13' above the floor

I thought about a pocket but the casters on my gantry crane won't jive with that.

So I'm building a new shop. Just broke ground today. Start forming up footing tomorrow. Anyway I'm torn on whether or not to slope the floor when the time comes. I get that the sloped floor allows for better drainage and I understand in a normal garage why that's useful. Pull in a snowy...

The rope idea sounds great. I guess I could tape it along the cage since a bunch of my rock crawler will have the wiring ran through the tube. Are you thinking that putting the wire spool rack on the cart is a bad idea? I just want to be able to pull multiple wires at the same time. For...

That would be great!

So I've got s few projects to wire. My rock crawler has exactly 0 wiring in it ( i have a universal 12 circuit harness in a box). My car trailer project also has 0 wiring, and I've got a few other wiring projects coming up so I got this idea to build a wiring/electrical service cart. I picked...