Air compressor - 15 amps (most of the ones I am looking at are around 15 amps but a few are a little higher)ģ. Heat/AC - 21 amps for the linked heater any AC should be less than that.Ģ. ![]() The house has an electric range, heat pump with supplemental electric heat.Īs for size of the wires I can't find anything on the feed wires saying the size but for reference the smaller wire in the back here is 2 AWG.ġ. They do have wires running to them so something should be on them. While checking them today I found a few that I could not figure out what they went to so I left them off until I figure them out. I don't need short sleeves temp in the garage just not freezing my hands and feet.Ĭurrent panel looks like this as far as the breakers in it. I was looking at one of the 5000W heaters like this. The garage is 19'x23' and ~11' ceilings and has some insulation but need to be finished insulating. ![]() 240V air compressor (Run to basement)(2 spaces) Is it as easy as that? Can I just knockout one of the side knockouts on the old panel and line up the new one with that and drill thru the 2x4 between them to run the wire?Ģ. On the new panel removing the neutral bonding screw, adding ground bar, Hooking up with appropriate size wiring. Installing it right next to the current panel and moving the microwave and garage outlet to it and adding additional circuits to that. I was thinking about buying something like this. Since in general I hear good things about the QO panels I was planning on sticking with that type unless there is a good reason to go with some other one. The main breaker is a 200A breaker and the panel is a square D QO panel(qo20-40m200). I am not a fan of the propane/kerosene fumes and we don't have gas running to the house so electric/heat pump it will end up being.Ĭurrently my power comes into the garage but all the breaker slots are filled (most are even tandem breakers).Ģ0 is an outlet I added right below the box.Īll the even numbered ones on tandem breakers are lighting/outlets/whatever in the house. ![]() I have tried the little space heaters but with high ceilings and 3 exposed walls they just don't seem to put out enough heat. In the summer it gets way to hot and I will not go out there either so I need to get some more power to the garage for heat/AC and other things in the future. It is cold out in the garage and I am wimping out when I can see my breath out there.
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