Running Some Power

[35mastr]

Well my small fab shop is just about ready for some power. I will be running both of my welders in there. Miller 210 mig and my Miller Econo Tig.

Neither will be running at the same time

Now I want to put three outlets on a 24" wall evenly spaced apart. I want to run them all on one 30 amp circuit with #10 THNN machine wire.

I was thinking that I could just pig tail each one on the straight run in each box.

Anyone opposed to doing this? Is there any other way of doing it on a single circuit?

 

[kchalle]

120V or 220V?

 

[Salem747]

Is it a long cable pull? I would recommend doing them separately, it won't be THAT much more and then everything is protected properly. In fact nema 50 fixtures aren't built to daisy chain and pig tails will add to the heat in the wall and the resistance of the circuit.

 

[trbomax]

I had almost the same situation.You should not daisychain the recepticles. I set a 100a sub panel,fed it with 2/0 from a 100a breaker in my service panel.There are 3 double pole breakers in the sub panel that supply the recepticles. 30a will be fine for the 210,thats what my one mig is,but I would check on the tig requirements. My lincoln tig wants 50a.Pic isnt real good,but you can get the idea.The sub panel is a square D (not homeline).