My New House & Workshop

[franklin2]

Can’t you put in a double slot breaker like you would use for air conditioning or an oven and feed the panel through that breaker from the side? It looks like another breaker in the panel, but it’s actually the disconnect for the panel. Yes/no?

Yes you can. And floating around in the box is a little sticker that says "MAIN". You do what you said and put that little sticker next to it. Works fine, it just takes up some of your breaker space.

 

[Jim Oaks]

Digging my trench I ran into the old gas line, the old 3/8" copper water line going to the shop, some buried coax cable, and a huge chunk of concrete with a pipe sticking out of it that was some type of post at some point. Yay.

It's been cleared out besides the gas line. I dug out from under it so I can run the conduit under. I ran into this when I did the water line.

 

[Jim Oaks]

My biggest concern right now is getting the 1 AWG aluminum cable into the building.

I'm using 2-inch conduit, but I have a very real fear the cable won't be able to make this 90 degree bend. I'm trying to search for more info and options.

 

[Jim Oaks]

Looks like it should work. Might be a little tight.

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[rumblecloud]

When I was doing a trench from my house to the barn I used a metal detector to help make sure there was nothing that would surprise.me along the way. Of course I was using a trencher so I really did not want any surprises. No

 

[Rick W]

My biggest concern right now is getting the 1 AWG aluminum cable into the building.

I'm using 2-inch conduit, but I have a very real fear the cable won't be able to make this 90 degree bend. I'm trying to search for more info and options.

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Take the cover off, and feed it from the inside. When it comes out where the cover is, loop it up and over the top and then down the vertical conduit. Makes it easy to pull it in the horizontal conduit and feed it down the vertical conduit.

When you have the ends kind of where you want them, you can twist that loop as you push it down the vertices and it should roll over and bend downwards. You can push it in place with a hammer handle so you can close the box. Works best with two people.

 

[Jim Oaks]

I just ordered 150-Feet Direct Burial Cat 6 Ethernet Cable. I'm going to run it through 1-inch PVC conduit. I've read that you should keep it 8-inches from the underground electrical. I also read that you should bury it 8-10 inches. My plan is to dig my trench 20-inches, put in the 2-inch conduit with the electrical service, fill in about 10-inches, run the 1-inch conduit with the Cat6 cable above that, and then fill the rest of it in.