My house has a 125 amp service and we recently got heat in the main room dining area on a heat pump instead of baseboards. Their load calculations said that we had 93 amps out of 125 accounted for so the current setup is fine.I thought we had lots of room on there as there was 8 service spots for new breakers but it turns out they cheaped out on the panel underneath and there aren't any so they had to disconnect the baseboards in the living room dining area to wire this.Trouble is I want to put in a woodworking shop in my garage and I need at least two 220 volt outlets for a band saw and a table saw and I wanted to put this all on a sub panel.I had brought up I wanted a wood shop and they said that the connection to the pole, transformers and the service line has enough capacity on it to service a 200 amp panel but some things would have to be replaced. So I need a new panel with all the existing Breakers transferred over I'm going to go to Square D because currently this one's a mismatch of types. I also have to upgrade the conductor that goes up from the panel to the roof mast and maybe also upgrade the grounding rods.Have I missed anything boys? Or girls, I know lots of girls in trade now
>>2961582There's a guy with another thread doing exactly the same thing. Get together with him and maybe you can get a volume discount on parts.
>>2961582i really didnt want to post this, but it looks i have>lol 110Vmy city apartment had more juice in the main panel than this, it was 64A 3ph 400V.
>>2961582nobody uses all 125 amps at one time.I have a shed and ran a 60 amp panel. I was concerned it was not enough, so I mounted an amp meter to monitor my usage. I never used more than 25 amps at any given time.at my new house I did the same thing, but also installed a 50 amp 220 outlet on a 60 amp panel along with 5 20 amp circuits. unless I weld I will never go above 25 amps, and even if I weld will barely use 50.
>>2963250Yeah, and he's probably got 480 volts at the pole. What good does having 400v at the main apartment panel do you when you are 3 floors up? His pole is probably closer than you main panel and he doesn't have to drill through a bunch of concrete to get it.
>>2963267no he isnt. do you know how 400V 3~ is laid out? its 400v at the panel, the one in your hallway, garsge or whatever. its never split until it reaches the end consumer. there its split into 230V + N branches for consooming. if you got a buttold panel and network it might be 230v 3~ and there they carry a Neutral, n is ground simple as.
>>2963250>64A 3ph 400Vthe fuckwe cannot have a residential connection above 25Ashit
