Good Day! Long time lurker, but first post. I didn't see anything similar, but my question is,
Has anyone powered a detached garage/shop from a large generator?
Reason I ask is our house has a 200amp service which goes to our 200amp panel in our house. Which then goes and powers the main detached garage (120V only) and our guest house (100amp service panel). We don't have any further room for another set of breakers in our panel and the run to what we call the RV garage (what I want to power) would be well over 250 feet. So burried line would be 00 or larger wire but wouldn't really have that many amps for using a welder or plasma cutter. I also asked the County if we could get another transformer/meter and we need another 1/2 acre in order to do that, unfortunately. So my thought was to use a generator and build out the RV garage as a small shop that I could work in and have our main detatched garage for actually housing our daily drivers instead of my wifes car and my project(s).
I was thinking of something similar to the Duromax 15,000 watt dual fuel portable generator. (https://www.duromaxpower.com/produc...ric-start-dual-fuel-hybrid-portable-generator). The RV garage is a single bay metal building of ~20' wide by ~40' long and 16' tall. Anytime I wanted to work in the shop, I'd roll the generator outside and plug it in and then I could have power for the following: LED lights, exhaust/intake fans for when it's hot out, 60-80 gal air compressor, 9000 lb 4-post lift, and enough juice to power either a welder or plasma cutter and other metal fabrication tools.
If this is something that's workable, then I'd probably add a second story to the back portion for storage of parts so I can get them up and out of the way. I'd also put in some walls with quite a bit of insulation for better control of heat and cold for working in the summer and winter.
Has anyone powered a detached garage/shop from a large generator?
Reason I ask is our house has a 200amp service which goes to our 200amp panel in our house. Which then goes and powers the main detached garage (120V only) and our guest house (100amp service panel). We don't have any further room for another set of breakers in our panel and the run to what we call the RV garage (what I want to power) would be well over 250 feet. So burried line would be 00 or larger wire but wouldn't really have that many amps for using a welder or plasma cutter. I also asked the County if we could get another transformer/meter and we need another 1/2 acre in order to do that, unfortunately. So my thought was to use a generator and build out the RV garage as a small shop that I could work in and have our main detatched garage for actually housing our daily drivers instead of my wifes car and my project(s).
I was thinking of something similar to the Duromax 15,000 watt dual fuel portable generator. (https://www.duromaxpower.com/produc...ric-start-dual-fuel-hybrid-portable-generator). The RV garage is a single bay metal building of ~20' wide by ~40' long and 16' tall. Anytime I wanted to work in the shop, I'd roll the generator outside and plug it in and then I could have power for the following: LED lights, exhaust/intake fans for when it's hot out, 60-80 gal air compressor, 9000 lb 4-post lift, and enough juice to power either a welder or plasma cutter and other metal fabrication tools.
If this is something that's workable, then I'd probably add a second story to the back portion for storage of parts so I can get them up and out of the way. I'd also put in some walls with quite a bit of insulation for better control of heat and cold for working in the summer and winter.
I was flipping back and forth between sub-panel use and main panel use (with/ without feeder) and inverted this detail.