So.... A couple years ago I bought my first house. After 3 years and 7 offers/contracts on other houses, I found the one that checked nearly every box that the wife and I had. I acquired an 18x21 shop, and the wife acquired a 11x20 amish built log cabin to turn into her sewing studio, which she turned down and took over the attached 2 car garage for.
Anyway, I was under the house a couple weeks ago rewiring a new modem/router location and putting in a couple hardwired LAN connections and did some more in depth scouting. I discovered that my cabin has full 100amp service coming off the house panel, and my shop, which looks to have a 100amp panel, is actually supplied by a 30amp breaker off the main house panel.
Screen grabs of the google view of the house and a crude sketch how the current wiring is laid out...
First picture is the shop panel and the second is the cabin panel...
I'm trying to figure out how to rectify the situation.
My first idea is to just run new 100amp service to the panel in the shop, and downgrade the service to the cabin to maybe 50? My shop needs a whole lot more than what a 30 amp circuit can provide and I'm convinced that 2- 20amp circuits can handle anything that I do with the cabin.
I didn't want to dig up the yard yet because I was planning on doing a mini split on each building in a year or so and I'd need to link the 2 heads to the same base.
Any thoughts or suggestions other than what I am thinking??
Anyway, I was under the house a couple weeks ago rewiring a new modem/router location and putting in a couple hardwired LAN connections and did some more in depth scouting. I discovered that my cabin has full 100amp service coming off the house panel, and my shop, which looks to have a 100amp panel, is actually supplied by a 30amp breaker off the main house panel.
Screen grabs of the google view of the house and a crude sketch how the current wiring is laid out...
First picture is the shop panel and the second is the cabin panel...
I'm trying to figure out how to rectify the situation.
My first idea is to just run new 100amp service to the panel in the shop, and downgrade the service to the cabin to maybe 50? My shop needs a whole lot more than what a 30 amp circuit can provide and I'm convinced that 2- 20amp circuits can handle anything that I do with the cabin.
I didn't want to dig up the yard yet because I was planning on doing a mini split on each building in a year or so and I'd need to link the 2 heads to the same base.
Any thoughts or suggestions other than what I am thinking??