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Forgot to mention this part. Though it was obvious, but I am still learning that common sense isn't always common. :beer:

yes, but not always. each outlet is different. Self-grounding outlets are what you want, but, only if your take care to remove the paper washers for maximum surface contact. I mean, the bottom screw should have a brass "scrubber" that will contact ground through the screw threads, but I like...

I'm an avid DIY-er and have no problems researching NEC (cal-NEC) and wiring my own electrical. But I won't touch plumbing with a 10 foot clown pole. Not hidden in the walls anyway. I'm planning on plumbing a waterline to my espresso machine in the new garage, but that will be on unistrut and...

looks like speaker wire?

Any time you use wire nuts, you need to be in an accessible location. Like an outlet box with a weather proof blank cover. Nothing wrong with using nuts, but if you have the opportunity to do it "right" (cleanly), you should. If this lead is coming from a inside light switch on the same wall...

With the frame members right there I might have fabbed up some unistrut. I wouldn't trust siding material to hold up the panel for ** number of years, let alone puncturing the siding.

We don't know until the OP says what it is. Sure, it may have a common size motor, but maybe it has electronics, or a heating element... with metric threads. :evil:

Always check when "re-wiring" something. You don't want any mistakes, as Europe is a long way to go to get another "whatever it is". I'm still wondering what OP has...

The isolation xfmr might be a bit overkill. The jist of connecting the device is in this thread. Now all of us want to know what you have.

100% this. A trailer is a rough environment when in motion. I'd go with lock washers, nylon lock nuts, and anything else possible to prevent things from falling off during transit. Even a few lose zip ties around your tubes in case they decide to unseat from the tombstones. The plastic...

I had a friend who brought his espresso machine back from europe. It was a 230V/50Hz machine. We added a 240V circuit to his kitchen. We used a nema 6-15R in the wall and sourced a dual 15A common trip breaker from the interwebs. The appliance, we chopped off the euro plug and connected the...

Sling Blue ($25/mo) you can use 3 devices to stream things at once.

SlingTV works the same way. There is on-demand content in addition to streaming "channels" to surf through. The one gotcha on SlingTV is the blatant denial of the skipping feature in on-demand content when an ad is being shown. You can skip through the program all you want, but god help you...

This. Safe and legal are different things. Properly sized box, and decent size strain reliefs, you shouldn't have a problem. I made a few boxes this way for an event I had. It was in a winery barrel room and I needed to run ~6-10 halogen work lights. The only outlets were L14-20. A few...

50M is plenty. Figure a 1080P stream is anywhere from ~10-20M so you can have a few streams at the same time with 50M service.

I have a Nvidia Shield TV. (2015 model) First Android TV to offer 4K res, but I keep mine set at 1080P/60. I have been using KODI with my local media library along with youtube for online content. Very recently I ordered slingTV to replace the cable service. The wife likes food / hgtv...

IIRC, ground doesn't count towards conductor count, but does count in fill tables?

I have some 3/4 EMT in my garage, and I ran a green #12 along with the circuits. The metal boxes I used have the green bonding screws, and I don't mind the redundant ground. Every box I have installed are the extra deep steel city boxes. I Like running a dedicated ground path for each circuit...

I'm not trying to shill OpenHAB, but it does have the ability to talk to most anything. Virtually eliminating vendor lock-in.

I'm a huge fan of nice halogen lights. The CRI on anything fluorescent or LED is going to be much more costly over equivalent halogen / incandescent lights. I love the warmth and color that a good halogen can provide. There are even some paintings that require a halogen for maximum art...