Recent content by Screwitharder

Hi, Thanks for the advice. Let me describe it better. The barn sits just under 300 feet (I don't know if the wire curved underground) from the house. It has a 125 amp panel being used as a subpanel. The feed to the barn comes from the side of the house where there's an outside panel (200 amp)...

Hi Everybody- I have a subpanel that is fed with 2/0 in a barn down the hill from my house. The feed is Aluminum. The problem I see is the feed hots are too large for the breaker screws. The previous owner snipped some Aluminum off, capped the hots to #4 tails and inserted the #4 in the breaker...

I know what you mean. Wires run now though, hooked up, I have lights, heat, air compressor running. 60 amps will be just fine. Not sure if I wrote #1, meant 1/0 though. at 60 amps, I calculated 3.6 drop (320 actual feet of wire once I terminated). I ran 2 inch conduit and could easily run more...

Thanks for all of the advice, I really messed this one up. My neighbor's an ***, an easement is out of the question. The electric company wil charge me $4372 to run a new service not incluing the permits. I already bought the 1/0, it's cut into 3 pieces (neutral, 2 hots) and the #4 for ground...

Thanks everybody for the help. I'm finally getting around to this and there's a NEW TWIST!! I started plotting out where to trench and my neighbor came out to say I was in the other neighbor's field! Seems I will need to go around, the distance will be 360 feet, not 140 feet. I figure #1 for...

Thanks for the message. I live in Baltimore County, MD. I have a 200 amp panel on the outside of the house. No plans for the other 100 amps right now. I will run the 100 to the shop and into a 100 amp panel that I already have. 2 rods will run from this panel into the local ground. I'll go...

Thanks Norcal, soj, wyliesdiesels, I will use #1 Al and #6 ground then. Good to know to glue conduit first, thought I was being clever! The bends can be slight (no elbow necessary). Any difference between running the conduit behind or in front of house (I live in the woods)? Also, if I go...

Hi everybody- I'm going to be wiring 100 amps to a woodshop next week that's 140 feet from my house. I have a split from the meter, 200 into the house and 200 to a panel mounted on the outside of the house. I'm going to trench to the shop 18 inches deep and run Four (4) 1/0 THWN single strand...