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- From: moroney@world.std.com (Michael Moroney)
- Subject: Re: Electrical wiring-- 'Sharing' a 220V circuit
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <Jan20.163026.48896@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1993Jan25.220207.14715@adobe.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:41:36 GMT
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- In article <Jan20.163026.48896@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> mglacy@lamar.ColoState.EDU () writes:
- >I'm putting a 5kw 220 electric resistance heater in my garage. It
- >must live on a 30A circuit. This will leave considerable excess
- >ampacity over the rated load + 25% required (to my understanding)
- >by the NEC. I'd like to run some lighting (say 200W max) at 110V
- >on one side of the 220 circuit. (This would enable me to keep the other
- >circuit in the garage as a power-tools-only circuit.)
-
- >Would this be safe and acceptable?
-
- Run the 240V feed to a subpanel in the garage. Run the heater off of one
- 240V breaker and the lights off a second circuit in the subpanel. You may
- want to consider a heaver feed than 30A so you can add more circuits in the
- future if you desire.
-
- -Mike
-