Great link to sub panel wiring

Iridium

Iridium

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This write up covers building, from scratch, a timer box for running multiple 240VAC ballasts, the price only covers the building of the box and none of the install requirements i.e. breaker, wire, plug head etc. I plan on doing a write up for the running of the wire, breaker install, plug head install etc. in a week or so.

You are correct on the wire pricing tho, 6/3 NM is roughly $2.43 per ft with 8/3 close behind at about $1.99 per ft which makes it expensive once you add in $15 for the range head plugin and $15-60 for the breaker, use to be $2.03 for 6/3 and $1.59 for 8/3 a few years back.
 
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DR. VonDankenstine

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ganjagoddess said:
I know what you mean, the neighboors were all over me asking what I was doing..

I just told em running new outlets to my garage to power a welder and a fridge...

We had to run the UF wire along side the house and into the garage, then into the basement from the garage because the hole into the house behind the MAin Panel was packed with wires and they Yellow foamed it shut.

WTF!?

So we just ran 4 14 AWG UF wires into the main panel, buried it under the rock, into the garage, the through a Junction box to the basement spilced to NM wire, then to 4 outlets to the room.

It was crazy, but its all up an running and I have had all three lights running for 8 hours now to test it all out....
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Your way ahead of the electrical curve than me----whats it going to cost me to run a 50amp sub-----all parts/wires/box/outlets-------my main is 40' from the location I need the sub-----just a close guess would be nice.
 
ganjagoddess

ganjagoddess

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DR. VonDankenstine said:
Your way ahead of the electrical curve than me----whats it going to cost me to run a 50amp sub-----all parts/wires/box/outlets-------my main is 40' from the location I need the sub-----just a close guess would be nice.
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For one if you do insist on a sub panel do a 60 amp panel so you can pull 4 15 amps wires outa it.

But when I did my pricing I found it was cheapr to just run 4 new breakers out of the main box, than buy 6/3 wire to a sub panel and all the NM wire from there to the room.


I got a 250' roll of 14/2 wire for $48 (lowes)!

then all you need is the outlet setups and your good to go.

that is if you have any space in your box, which I did.

Even if you only have 2 space in your main box, It cheaper to run 10/2 wire to two 30 amps than build a whole subpanel...!!!
 
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DR. VonDankenstine

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ganjagoddess said:
For one if you do insist on a sub panel do a 60 amp panel so you can pull 4 15 amps wires outa it.

But when I did my pricing I found it was cheapr to just run 4 new breakers out of the main box, than buy 6/3 wire to a sub panel and all the NM wire from there to the room.


I got a 250' roll of 14/2 wire for $48 (lowes)!

then all you need is the outlet setups and your good to go.

that is if you have any space in your box, which I did.

Even if you only have 2 space in your main box, It cheaper to run 10/2 wire to two 30 amps than build a whole subpanel...!!!
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I read somewhere they make ultra-slim breakers(my space is full) I wonder if I could free up enough space with those slim breakers to fit the 4-15's in there.--------------so 14/2 from your outlets to 15 amp breakers in your main?----sounds good to me...
 
ganjagoddess

ganjagoddess

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YES do exactly what you just mentioned to me. PERFECT, swap out some breakers for the slim lines.

The breakers are only connected by one wire, its easy as pie to go a swappin them for the slim ones.

then run yourself some new breakers with 14/2 wire (rated only for 15 amps.)

Check out my diary tommorrow sometime for pic by pic analysis on what I did.

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