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I've always known pools/spas had the insulated ground requirement, but I don't think I've ever heard of this for a detached structure. I guess it's not so much a detached structure rule as it is anything run underground. Since romex isn't allowed underground, that means you pretty much always...

Hard to tell for sure, but it looks like you're missing green phase tape on the ground wire in the shop panel. Looks like top notch work.

And if it's metal conduit run underground I can pretty much guarantee there's nothing left of it and you have no ground if it's been installed for more than 5 years or so.

Yup, what they suggested above is exactly what you need and what my jerry-rigged fitting provided (just with male threads instead of female). My company didn't provide those and I was too young and dumb to know something like that existed so I improvised.

Is the box you're referring to the 3rd from the left? We need pics of the nameplate on that, and even better, the interior. I've never seen a transformer like that. I highly doubt you have 3 phase, I think Wylies is probably right, that they used a 3ph disconnect on a 1ph application. As...

That looks like the same installs I encountered all the time when I was a sparky in CA many years ago. I had a trick that may or may not be kosher due to proper use and UL listing of fittings, but it works slick as hell. Unfortunately I don't have any pics, but I'll try to describe it. Cut out...

That's a funky way to wire it up. Yes, white wire should be capped off with a wire nut. White wire connected to dimmer is a hot switch leg wire and should be taped black. Ground wires absolutely should be connected to the bare ground wires in the box. That is indicative of a DIY install, IMO...

You have a a loose/intermittent connection. Now that's it's completely dead is the ideal and easy time to troubleshoot it and find the issue, as Bert said. Use a voltage tester to see where the voltage has dropped off. Could also be very possible it's a loose neutral too, so check neutral...

Nothing wrong with what he did and is likely the easiest way to accomplish this. I would prefer a more flush mounted option, but that will depend on how much room that siding opening allows for a cover that swings open. You could flush mount a box from the inside and install a flush in-use...

In true GJ fashion we've recommended complete and utter overkill. What are you going to plug in at a gazebo? A weed wacker, a stereo, a BBQ rotisseire, a bug zapper, charge a phone? You're talking a couple amps at most and everyone is recommending 40 amps of circuit capacity. :lol_hitti...

But you said it was tripping the GFCI on all the recep's you tried. How can you be unsure if it's on GFCI if you say it's tripping them? Like sberry asked, is it tripping the GFCI or the breaker?

Just don't use metal conduit, otherwise you need to bond both ends, which is a PITA.

My guess is you have your eyes set on that really nice 150A panel with lots of spaces to use for a sub and assume you need a 150A breaker in the main to feed it. Not true. You can feed that 150A subpanel with any size circuit you want (not over 150A, obviously). You size the breaker based on...

If you're running conduit end to end, you can, and should, run individual conductors. Pulling a single large cable is more difficult than individual conductors of equivalent size.

Original installer was his father in law. That could make for an awkward Thanksgiving dinner.

Looks great, but I think your lawn needs some fertilizer.

For things like this I like to use a 4-11/16" box. Provides way more room than a 4x4 without going to oddities like 8x8 which are not common and provide their own difficulties in mounting, finishing in a flush mount config, mounting surface conduit to, etc. You can get 4-11/16" x 2-1/8"...

Pretty much any house I've ever worked on, which is plenty, has had general purpose receptacle circuits for bedrooms and the like run in 15A. There may be local requirements in parts of the country that require 20A, but nowhere I've ever worked (CO and CA).

I think that both black and white wires were damaged at some point, likely not from stripping because it didn't break at the strip point. Maybe from someone starting to cut both wires with Kleins, then realizing they didn't want to do that and stopped. The black was damaged enough that the...