Re: Power

["J. B. Weazle McCreath" <weazle-at-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx>)]

At 06:23 PM 15/11/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Jason Johnson" <hvjjohnson13-at-hotmail-dot-com> 
>
>I'm running a 240 volt, 40 amp dedicated line out to my "High voltage
>Laboratory" (garage really).  Will 6 guage copper handle this power?
>

Number 6 will easily handle 40 amps.  I'd go with a run of 8/3 myself
so that you could have both 120 and 240 available via a garage subpanel.

>Also, I noticed that all the power comes into our house through a 5 KVA
>pole pig, and two 16/3 cables with the conductors parelleled.  I will
>be using twice that amount of power in the garage alone!  How can that
>be up to code!?   Should the question be "Will the point where I tie
>into the grid handle that power?"  instead of "Will MY wiring handle it?"

Whoa!  Something's not right there!!  I think you best have an electrician
take a look at your service before doing anything.  For one thing, unless
your power usage in the house is just for lights, I don't see how the 16/3
has not burned up!!  I use a moderate amount of power here, about 25 KWH a
day, and my home is powered from a dedicated 25 KVA pig with 4/0 conductors
running into the service panel!  Be safe and get it checked out.


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