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creeky
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# Posted: 4 May 2013 10:45am
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It's time for me to run electrical from my solar shed to my "shizzer shack" and my "cabin." I have a backhoe so I'm burying the cable and I have purchased some off cuts from an electrical store NMWU.
I want one 15 amp circuit for the shizzer shack and 2 circuits for the cabin/studio.
My questions is: would it be better to run 10/2 from the solar shed panel to my shizzer shack with a 30 amp fuse and then, putting another panel in at the shack, have a 15 amp circuit in the shack and then run a 12/3 line with the two 15 amp circuits to the cabin?
Or should I run separate lines from the cabin and shack to the solar shed. I have to check, but I think if I have two circuits in an outbuilding I need another panel at the cabin.
Thoughts?
btw: my solar inverter output is 30 amps. and yes, I'm very careful to use one large draw device at a time. (ie. I even turn off the TV before using the microwave.) Currently (ha ha) I'm using 14/3 armoured above ground to my cabin ... can't wait to get a buried line.
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rayyy
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# Posted: 5 May 2013 12:24pm
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That's an interesting term.What is a shizzer shack?I would highly reccomend putting in 3 seperate conduits all 1 inch.That way you could use one for your 120 volt a/c power lines.one for your low volt solar panel wireing and a third for future use or your 12 volt battery power needs.
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creeky
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# Posted: 5 May 2013 01:03pm
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oh. the shizzer shack is my "outhouse". It's an 8x16 pole barn. I have a envirolet composting toilet I picked up cheap in there already ... and as soon as I can get the workshop out ... a shower and the clothes washer. all hooked up to a rainwater collection system. well. by June hopefully (plans).
I should mention that the three buildings are 30 yards from each other.
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