<VV> Re: Garage Ideas - Futures

[JVHRoberts at aol.com]

You won't find copper on ANY circuit larger than 30 amps on ANY house less  
than 40 years old! And for good reason, copper costs a LOT more, and offers NO  
benefit whatsoever. 
 
Anyhow, a heat pump for this size garage only needs a 20 amp circuit, and  
you'll NEVER run it all at once anyway!
 
Certainly going to 100 amps costs not much more, and if that's what you  
think you need, you should do it! 
 
In a message dated 8/7/2007 10:01:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
lechevrier at earthlink.net writes:


 
Hardly  anyone uses copper for over 30  amps. 

Personally,  I think 60 amps is plenty. I mean, what are you going to run out 
 there?


Well,  for a "dream garage", a heat pump (warm in winter, cool in summer),  
refrigerator (beer cooler), oven (for heating heads), dishwasher (for cleaning  
parts), water heater, water cooler (for those that don't drink beer), chest  
freezer (cause the wife doesn't want it in the house, and you have that great  
big shop ...), welders, lights, air compressor, computer work station 
(looking  things up on CD), fans, and what ever else I've forgotten ... like battery  
chargers, modern tire machines (some have electric motors), some woodworking  
equipment, drills, buffers, maybe a lathe, and if we are going there, a mill, 
 grinders -- I don't think there is an end to this list, microwave, blender 
(if  this is part of what you do), so since we are dreaming, plan that you may  
eventually be adding all this stuff to your shop,  and you need  the extra 
capacity in case the freezer, fridge, water heater, and air  compressor just 
happen to all come on at the same time while you are  welding.

Yeah,  AL might "work" and it certainly will be less money (not as much less 
as it  used to be), but since we are "dreaming", copper is best!  Also better 
is  panel boxes with copper buss bars.

Bill  S


 



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