Recent content by firebirdmess85

Yes I already have an overhead line to the garage, their old and two separate wires running to the garage. The garage is about 50 feet after re-measuring. I don't have a subpanel in the garage right now.

You have certainly cleared up a bit for me. The only thing I'm confused on is would running the 2-pole 240v to a a 100 amp box in the garage would allow me to run a 240v compressor and lights tools, etc at the same time or just the compressor? I'm already the one digging the trenching and...

The issue with running 100 amp is that I don't have the room on my main breaker panel to do that. I have a 100 amp box after the main right now. If we go with twin breakers i could free up a few spaces but not enough to run 100 amps to the garage.

It's about 30 feet to the garage. I'm not sure what wiring they were planning on using as a baseline to see how much extra 2-2-2-4 would cost but I'm assuming they were going to put 10 or 8 gauge ran to the garage. I originally asked him for a 50 amp but he said 30 should be fine. That's why...

After reading a lot of posts by this group over the years I finally decided to join today. First off I just want to say how helpful this group has been by putting a lot of information in understandable terms. I'm running a new electrical main at 100 amps to my existing circuit breaker. All...