Recent content by bdog

Thanks guys. I don't have digital calipers but will buy some. It is kind of a long story but where we are working is about an hour round trip drive to the store that will have sockets this big, or the calipers for that matter. It is hard for us to break away during the hours they are open right...

I am working on a Japanese piece of heavy equipment. All the fasteners are metric. I have some bolts I need to remove that are very tight and I am going to have to hit them with the 1” impact. I have limited metric tools in larger sizes. A 1-3/4” wrench won’t fit, I don’t have a 1-13/16” to...

Interesting. Thanks for the information. My meter is for a shop that has pretty high demands. When the AC and everything else is running I am pretty sure I will be easily over 100 amps continuously. I have some unique things in there though that draw a lot.

Having had to upgrade the wires going to my shop in the past month I say go big. When you figure the work involved the cost of the other materials, etc the wire cost just isn’t that significant in the long run. Once installed you will never under any circumstance think I wish I had used smaller...

I recently upgraded the main panel to 200 amp and feeder wires to 3/0 in my shop. The meter is right next to, about a foot away, from the transformer pedestal. While I had the meter can open hooking up the wires I noticed they were feeding the meter with #2. I called the electric company about...

I guess what I was trying to get at is there has to be some sort of science behind this. By that I mean if you are working in your shop every day it likely uses less energy to just keep it a constant temp instead of letting it get super cold and then trying to heat it all the way back up. But...

I just setup a 5 ton gas furnace in my 50x50x14 steel building with spray foam insulation. I have a wifi thermostat I can adjust from my phone. When I first turned it on the temps in the shop went from 42 to 60 in about three hours with an outside temp of about 30. Working in the winter I...

I just installed a 5 ton in my 50x50x14 and it works great on heating it. It will be a few months before I can say how the cooling performs.

No one around here has it because it just doesn’t get that cold but everything I have read about in floor heat says it is the way to go in really cold climates. Heat rises so it makes sense. No personal experience but if I ever moved up north that is what I would be looking in to.

I’m not blaming anyone. In my original post I asked about splicing the original wires together in the meter box and pulling new wire for the main service. No one had anything negative to say about that but I thought it was unsafe so I bought two sets of new wire and did essentially the same...

Yes I ended up with the nest. I was going to order a sensi but picked up the nest for $169 at Lowe’s locally since it was a rush deal.

Got it installed today. Waiting on plumber to finish hooking up gas to test it out. He was short one fitting and had to run and go get it.

What’s crazy? It was not already done when I posted the thread. I obviously wasn’t sure the best way to fix it so I was looking for advice. Being without power isn’t something that you want to drag out for multiple days or weeks so I fixed it quickly. No one mentioned it wasn’t allowable until...

Yes I know. Lots here not code and I don’t care as long as I feel it is safe. I read the code you posted and the reason for it is if the wires shorted to each other in the conduit the non service wires could see more current than designed for. In my case if I bought the meter with dual lugs...

If it is purely storage I wouldn’t bother but if you spend time out there working I definitely would. I have three shops at my place one is insulated (spray foam) that I work in and the other two are for storage and are not. It is a night and day difference walking in the insulated or non...