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Shame I don't live any closer. I'd help you put one in for a case of beer and a good meal.

It's really a very straight forward process in most cases, though it does have a couple of minor intricacies here and there. The hardest part is just figuring out where and how you want to run the cable.

Lmk when u will be Los Angeles. . Then I won't have to have this mess any longer.

I can run some wire thru the attic across to the garage or conduit along the front of the house along the eaves

It's cheaper if I fly you out here.


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[Nathan the Machinist]

Y'all remember the rolling blackouts? It was all traced to that power strip.

 

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Y'all remember the rolling blackouts? It was all traced to that power strip.

That's only one of the two. I'm embarrassed to show another one

It's Los Angeles. We have two fireplaces and one outlet in the garage. That's how it is here.

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[Nathan the Machinist]

My shop is an electrical nightmare. Our power bill last month was over $600, and the majority of that flows through wiring installed by vandals.

 

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My shop is an electrical nightmare. Our power bill last month was over $600, and the majority of that flows through wiring installed by vandals.

How many machines? We have 8 CNC, average bill is about $3,500 month


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[Nathan the Machinist]

3 VMC, a lathe, a big bandsaw, a big hydraulic Gorton tracer mill, a chip hopper and sump filtering for scales production, all jammed into a one car garage.

Oh, and a sad little AC unit.

How many machines? We have 8 CNC, average bill is about $3,500 month


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[Drew Riley]

Lmk when u will be Los Angeles. . Then I won't have to have this mess any longer.

I can run some wire thru the attic across to the garage or conduit along the front of the house along the eaves

It's cheaper if I fly you out here.


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Reminds me of this:

If you've got a 200 amp service panel, I assume you've got plenty of room to tie in AT LEAST a 50 amp sub panel to your garage. For that, you would need a 50 amp breaker from the service panel, feeding at least a 6/4 cable to the sub (or if you use a conduit for your ground, you can use 3 conductors for your 2 hots and neutral connection). You'll probably want something like a 100 amp load center in the garage. The main thing is just that whatever breaker you feed with from the service panel doesn't exceed the amperage capacity of the wires feeding the sub/distribution panel. You can go bigger or smaller, accordingly, but most people will probably find they have a hard time using more than 50 amps on a regular basis (all at once, that is) in a typically garage sized shop.

From there, it's really just a matter of making a few connections and securing the cable (or conduit) throughout the attic and down into the panels.

Now depending on where your service panel is located, and how it's finished into the house, as well as how your garage is finished, will have some bearing on how connections are to be made and finished out, but other than that, there really isn't much to it.

Of course, this doesn't factor in local laws and codes on electrical work, and you may still want to have it inspected by a certified electrician or inspector, otherwise, there may be an issue when it comes time to want to sell your house. (This side of things is a little beyond my current scope of knowledge).

All that to say, this isn't a job that CAN'T be done by your average homeowner, but you obviously do so at your own risk and liability. And whatever you do, don't touch anything above or behind your main breaker in your service panel, or that's gonna likely be all she wrote.