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I’m working on a ~300 foot run to my new shop for a 125 amp panel. Why would someone run 2/0-2/0-2/0-1 mobile home feeder rather than the 2/0-2/0-1-4 version? The reduced neutral is cheaper and it seems like 120v loads on either side of the hots would cancel out most neutral load back to the...

Do you have a part number or link to the Phillips bulb you describe? I have a feeling light pattern and distribution might not be the best with a base up screw in LED replacement for incandescents but I’m not an expert.

I have a wood furnace in my “workshop” that has cars and/or flammable liquids in it from time to time. It was permitted and inspected. My insurance is a smaller in-state agency that I just renewed with this fall. I sent them photos of the install and they were good with it. FYI - I asked Geico...

It’s not really. A 1” line at 125 feet is only 117k BTU. Then I need to add the piping inside the building along with bends. With an 80k hanging heater to feed I wanted to make sure I have extra capacity for a pool heater of bathroom water heater.

I just finished digging the trench to lay my 125ish foot long run of 1 1/4” poly gas line to my shop. I’m looking forward to having heat this winter but I have two questions so far in the process. 1) Home Depot carries a bunch of sizes of poly gas line but they don’t carry the tracer wire in...

Where do you think the steam produced goes? Out the chimney along with the btus absorbed. These are btus that would have otherwise been used to heat your home.

It produces the same BTU but a significant portion is absorbed by turning water into steam. You’ll have to do the calculations since you don’t specify the moisture percentage or quantity of the “green wood” in your equation but it takes 1112 btus to turn a pound of 70 degree water into steam...

You may be best off buying a pallet of presto logs at this point. Most firewood sellers know it’s game on and are charging full bore prices to the late buyers. I always dry for the first year in rounds outside and then split it and store it in a Harbor Freight canvas garage for the second year...

Me too. Those guys wasting fancy Wago connectors on a ground :headscrat

I’d go bigger than 12k simply to deal with the heat load of those doors opening and hot cars with hot engines being pulled in.

CD, I saw replacement eight foot covers once with LED strips integrated into them. Do such things still exist and are they any good? Edit: I think they were called strip light retrofits?

Insulated with R30 in the walls and ceiling. Three ceiling fans. Two 14X12 roll up doors and a man door, no windows. The shop will be used for automotive repair and restoration. I live in north Idaho the elevation is right around 2400 feet.

Is the number you get from your ballpark a gross or net heater btu? My shop is 36x48x14 which gives me 96,768 btu. I have an 80k heater I was going to use but it’s only 80% efficient so the net is 64k btu. Am I just slightly under or am I way under?

Can you just use a bigger battery charger? Seems like a guy dragging dead cars would already have one laying around somewhere...

They are in an evenly spaced 3 by 5 grid. It just happened that the bottoms of the trusses lined up that way and since I have no ceiling I went with it. Here are some photos from during my ceiling insulation install. Edit: The fixtures were cheap on Craigslist from a grocery store retrofit. I...

I have 15 6 bulb T5HO high bay fixtures in my 36x48 shop. They draw 5000 watts and give off a beautiful bright white light. I’m not sure how many lumens at a 36” work plane it has but it’s plenty bright for me.

I agree. If you burn it in with the welder they a guaranteed to never come loose and you can always cut it back off with a grinder.

Anthracite (AKA hard coal) has about 28 million btu per ton. That 10 tons of coal the poster mentioned above gives you 280 million btu. That’s over 82,000 kilowatts of energy. You aren’t getting that from a Tesla battery pack. Try this link and put in your electric rates for a comparison...

All of this ^^ Amp measurement is king here. If you are pulling 20 amps at 240V then 4800 watts is being consumed and 16378 BTU’s are being generated. Glowing red coils are not desirable as this reduces heating element life due to thermal shock.

I was speaking more to the OP who shows his location to be southern Illinois. Seems wasteful to burn the coal to make electricity and then turn the electricity back into heat. I’ve never been to northern Louisiana. Only the Gretna, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge area. I had no idea there were...