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Oh my god, we must be dealing with the same people, that bonding the control transformer thing sets me off! I remember as a tech traceing this circuit that measure 50 - 60 vac to ground all over a plant, to find out it was one leg of a control transformer that neutral had not been bonded to ground. I get sick of the nec discussions, because everybody knows more than someone else. I have spent days in the codebook going around in circles to finally deside to use some common sense (which seems to be lacking in the trade) and tell the contractor to do it a specific way, or i won't buy it!

patlpp said:

This is nothing... there are posts recommending to stoners who haven't the least lick of sense, busting open breaker boxes and/or tapping into one side of 220 lines. It's getting as dangerous as meth labs.... for fucks sake.

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I tend to not respond to posts where the guy is in over his head (or tell him he is)

Hello I was hoping you could give me a step by step way or a link that would help me run electrical from my house to my shed which is about 50' from my electrical box on my house.

I am stupid when it comes to electrical, I want to run 4 1000w lights each ballast pulls 9.5 amps I have 2 4" fans for exhaust and 2 oscallating wall fans

and I fiqure I need alittle more juice for odds like watering pump,cloner,a couple of 2 tube floros. I was told to run a 50 amp breaker from my box to 8 guage wire buried underground to the shed but from there I am lost what do I hook the 3 wires to? a breaker box ? How many breakers? 2 25 amp? or is there a easier way to do this ?

Thanks
4personaluse

It sounds like you have the right plan to get the service to the shed, once there you should go to a small breaker panel. Do you have the option to operate the 1000 watt ballasts from 220? What type of timer for the lights would you like to use?

Does anyone know a easy place to steal a HPS from like a light pole, I have a light pole in my yard it has a bulb that looks like HPS from a distance and it looks orange at night does that mean it is a HPS because of the redish orange spectrum. How can I tell if it is a HPS light bulb or a flood light. If it is a HPS bulb how can I get the bulb out without getting electricuted and what do I do for a ballast when I get the bulb.

its a mv... it wont work right, and you'll probably get yourself killed in the process

well that sucks major balls I need a HPS and I cant afford one any time soon.

4personaluse said:

Hello I was hoping you could give me a step by step way or a link that would help me run electrical from my house to my shed which is about 50' from my electrical box on my house.

I am stupid when it comes to electrical, I want to run 4 1000w lights each ballast pulls 9.5 amps I have 2 4" fans for exhaust and 2 oscallating wall fans

and I fiqure I need alittle more juice for odds like watering pump,cloner,a couple of 2 tube floros. I was told to run a 50 amp breaker from my box to 8 guage wire buried underground to the shed but from there I am lost what do I hook the 3 wires to? a breaker box ? How many breakers? 2 25 amp? or is there a easier way to do this ?

Thanks
4personaluse

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Please hire someone. Tell them its for a workshed

and his wire size should be #6, for an underground service.

someone didnt derate

quick question...

is 12 guage wire thick enough for a 20 amp braker?

I got a QT style seimens braker that has 2 little switches that are not connected, and each says 20.

Each also has a port for its on set of wires.

So i was going to run 2 sets of 3wire 12gague wires from it.

Just wanted to make sure this was enough... and the wire will be going about 50 ft.

Thanks.

#12 will get you 20 amps @ 50 feet all day

hey this might be a stupid question, but i have two 115v cpu fans that are a bit too loud, and cell phone chargers (could only find 5v) didnt have the power to start it up (or i wired it backwards twice in a row, which is slightly possible)
would i be able to reduce the current and consequently the fan speed and noise by wiring the two fans to one cord, or in a line?
gracias

BuddhaBud said:

hey this might be a stupid question, but i have two 115v cpu fans that are a bit too loud, and cell phone chargers (could only find 5v) didnt have the power to start it up (or i wired it backwards twice in a row, which is slightly possible)
would i be able to reduce the current and consequently the fan speed and noise by wiring the two fans to one cord, or in a line?
gracias

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Well you say a 115V (as in one hundred fifteen) volts? I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that that fan is an AC fan. (a cell charger is going to be DC and I have no idea where the MYTH of a 12VDC cell charger came from but they do NOT exist, except for maybe an old bag phone)

If its an AC fan, you are SOL. There are a few kludge options like a router speed control or a *ceiling fan* dimmer (not a light dimmer) But the motor will hum from this.

If it IS a DC fan, then speed control is a lot easier.

Hey guys, I have another thread going. I just purchased 12 1000w hps systems and i have 5 600w hps systems air cooled reflectors. Its a 50s house with electric updated in the early 80s from what i was told. Just rented it. landlord is way out of town and just purchases foreclosures. Rents em craigslist and such. I have 3 upstairs bedrooms. Running on three 20 amp breakers. Not all sockets in each room are set to same breaker kind of a hodge podge thing but what are you going to do. I want to maximize amount of lights in the bedrooms I was thinking using the 600watters up there. In the basement I have the panel with a bunch of open slots. I was thinking with advice and how to, could I run dedicated lines around my basement. Obviously when I have felt my time at this place should end, i am going to have to take everything with me. so I am hoping its easy install/uninstall. I am deathly afraid of starting a fire when im at work or even sleeping. So My goal is to add circuits to the basement.

So if i wanted to run say 3 1000 hps, two oscillating fans, and an inline fan for cooling lights what size breaker/romex would you use.

If i wanted to run more sockets and say 2 1000 hps, two fans and the inline fan what size breaker/romex should i use.

These are 120v ballasts.

lastly, what would you recommend for an electrical setup run right from the panel. I believe i have four slots available maybe six.

Is this an undertaking I can handle. Thanks This thread has been awesome to read

couvan57 said:

So if i wanted to run say 3 1000 hps, two oscillating fans, and an inline fan for cooling lights what size breaker/romex would you use.

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i would run a separate breaker for each 1000 your gonna run. You can use 14 gauge romex with 15 amp breakers or 12 gauge wire with 20 amp breakers.
( a 1000 watter at 120v is around 8.5 amps each, so you could cram 2 on a 20amp circuit but its better to use separate circuits)

BigBudBalls said:

Well you say a 115V (as in one hundred fifteen) volts? I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that that fan is an AC fan. (a cell charger is going to be DC and I have no idea where the MYTH of a 12VDC cell charger came from but they do NOT exist, except for maybe an old bag phone)

If its an AC fan, you are SOL. There are a few kludge options like a router speed control or a *ceiling fan* dimmer (not a light dimmer) But the motor will hum from this.

If it IS a DC fan, then speed control is a lot easier.

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yea its AC, i wired the two fans together and im going to plug them into a speed controller
thanks!

I just want to thank RIU and you guys contributing and answering questions on Electrons, or how not to get between them and GROUND!!!


RIU and GOOGLE has kept me from Burning The House Down...
Thanks Everybody...

Now for my project, I have 3 bedroom home and all 3 rooms are on a 15 amp circuit.
I want to expand so I built this, it's plugged into my 30 amp dryer outlet.
The dryer is in the house just a hallway and a closet from the grow room, so I ordered 20' of 10 gauge 4-wire cord (yes I know it's 3-wire + ground) and 12 gauge romex 2-wire + bare ground...

I leaned that on the web...

I wanted 15 amps of 240 vac and 15 amps of 120 vac to power my flower room. I also wanted to control many pumps with just one timer, so I added a contactor / relay. The dark outlets are energized by the NFT-1e timer. This was fun to build, and I saved loads of money...

good job.. all you need is a cover for that 6x12

Thanks, I have it... I just don't remember where the screws are...

k, instead of 50ft,

100ft, 12 guage, 20 amps. 110acv. Safe?

Thanks