- 1. Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: drabik@solaris.mirc.gatech.edu (Timothy J. Drabik)
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 96 15:24:52 EST
- Dear shop-talkers, I am trying to decide how to do electrical distribution around my shop. The super-deluxe approach would be wiring ducting with removable covers, which allow for arbitrary placement
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00128.html (7,923 bytes)
- 2. FW: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: "Burstein, Wayne M." <BURSTEIN@genicom.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 96 17:20:00 EST
- conduit I just finished the electrical wiring in my garage and am now running copper air lines. If I had to do it again, I would run the air first and bend the conduit around the copper pipe. I am n
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00130.html (8,958 bytes)
- 3. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: Gary G Goodlund <garyg@crl.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 16:35:15 -0800 (PST)
- This only one opinion but my set-up works for me. Whether the conduit is up high or down low is a matter of choice but I like the 4-outlet boxes just above the workbench level. That way I don't have
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00133.html (8,794 bytes)
- 4. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: cak@aratar.com (Chris Kantarjiev)
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 96 17:23:25 PST
- OK all you guys that run conduit along the ceiling with drops - how exactly did you do it? 1/2" galvanized conduit with individual conductors pulled to a junction box above every outlet, and wire nut
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00134.html (8,497 bytes)
- 5. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: Ccanepa50@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 00:18:28 -0500
- electrics 101: use # 12 wire in conduit, run up to 8 duplex recepticles off one circuit in series, prefereably 20amp. use one neutral for every other circuit, in order, as in one red feed one black f
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- 6. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: Andy Banta <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 21:28:23 -0800
- I don't know what you mean by "along the ceiling," but I'd probably build a smallish box section to hide numerous runs of flexible conduit. Flexible conduit is far easier to play with than bending E
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00138.html (10,505 bytes)
- 7. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 23:57:47 -0600 (CST)
- A circuit breaker is not a switch and ought not be used as one. Frequent use can compromise its ability to do its primary job: Protecting against circuit overload if something goes wrong. Phil
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00140.html (8,265 bytes)
- 8. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: Andy Banta <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 23:00:27 -0800
- A recommendation that should be heeded as much as anything our government tells us. :-) An overused breaker will invariably trip to the fault of caution. I don't mean to sound careless to any extent
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- 9. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 09:21:41 -0600 (CST)
- Which is annoying as hell. My father's cabin had a water heater with no switch other than the breaker. We turned off the breaker every time we went home. After a while, the water heater would kick th
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00146.html (9,892 bytes)
- 10. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 11:46:13 -0800 (PST)
- Not to belabor the point or add too much to the "fray," but what does a switch cost, anyway? $.49? $.39 each in quantities of 10 or more? And when that goes bad, at least you've still got the breaker
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00148.html (8,754 bytes)
- 11. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: cak@dimebank.com (Chris Kantarjiev)
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 10:05:26 -0800
- The annoying thing that I learned last night is that since my workshop is in a garage, all circuits with outlets should be (according to code) be protected by GFCI. This means no neutral sharing (I b
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00149.html (8,771 bytes)
- 12. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug Mitchell" <dmitchel@ford.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 14:13:20 -0500
- Ok, I was going to stay out of the fray regarding using a circuit breaker as a switch, then it dawned on me that there are several electricians (skilled trades) working on the remodeling job going on
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00152.html (8,793 bytes)
- 13. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: cak@aratar.com (Chris Kantarjiev)
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 96 11:59:29 PST
- You can get some GFCI *outlets* that allow some daisy chaining. This may solve your shared neutral problem and the half-size breakers. Right. The code allows one to GFCI-protect a circuit by putting
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00153.html (8,724 bytes)
- 14. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: Ccanepa50@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 03:33:08 -0500
- Gee guys lighten up on me, five guys want ream my butt for even suggesting using a circuit breaker as switch, it was my third choice. so......you better take a number and wait in line, there are a LO
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00159.html (8,582 bytes)
- 15. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: Andy Banta <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 10:37:41 -0800
- You can get some GFCI *outlets* that allow some daisy chaining. This may solve your shared neutral problem and the half-size breakers. andy
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00162.html (8,942 bytes)
- 16. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug Mitchell" <dmitchel@ford.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 07:13:11 -0500
- Check into GFCI circuit breakers. They are more expensive, but they will probably solve this problem. Doug Mitchell
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00163.html (9,136 bytes)
- 17. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: "Roger Garnett" <rwg1@cornell.edu>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 08:13:06 -500
- Why would you want to do this for 110 circuits? You will effectivly limit your outlets to 1/2 of the circuit capacity, by doubling the load on the neutral wire. Each 110 circuit should have it's own
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00164.html (9,201 bytes)
- 18. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: cak@aratar.com (Chris Kantarjiev)
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 96 10:50:31 PST
- Check into GFCI circuit breakers. They are more expensive, but they will probably solve this problem. Same problem - you can't share the neutral, so you can't run jacketed (BX) 12/3 around the shop t
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00171.html (8,820 bytes)
- 19. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: cak@aratar.com (Chris Kantarjiev)
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 96 10:59:53 PST
- Why would you want to do this for 110 circuits? You will effectivly limit your outlets to 1/2 of the circuit capacity, by doubling the load on the neutral wire. Each 110 circuit should have it's own
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00172.html (9,031 bytes)
- 20. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <johnm@ims.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 13:14:35 -0800
- The thing about this that I don't understand is that when I wired my new home a while back the code didn't demand much of this technique. No documentation in the panel describing which circuits were
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00178.html (9,289 bytes)
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