How To Run 220v To Garage

AllGoNoShow

Hey guys....I am in the process of getting quotes to run 220V to my garage. House has an unfinished basement, is virtually 1700 Sq FT., and currently has 150AMP service with a service panel that is completely filled with 22 breakers. I have a 220V clothes dryer merely my stove is gas.

I desire to run 220 to the garage and have (ii) 220 hook-ups so I can run an IR 5HP 60Gallon Compressor and accept another hook-upwards for either the Lincoln 220 Welder I have (its i of the inexpensive $600 varietys) or a 220V Electric Heater in the winter. I merely practise this is a hobby so it wont be used very often (and probably rarely will use both at aforementioned time).

I'm getting a couple conflicting opinions. Some say I should upgrade the whole house to 200AMP service (just for $2500!) while others say I could plow everything on in the entire house and it wouldn't even pull 100AMPs and that the guys telling me to upgrade service are just trying to get more than money out of me. They want to upgrade the service panel to give me more than breaker spots, keep the 150 service, so run another console in the garage that has either 50 AMP or 100 AMP service.

Just curious what you guys think and what y'all have done in your own garage! I just need the (2) 220V then maybe an boosted circuit or two for some additional 110V receptacles and some lighting (which I tin can probably just take off the existing).

Nick

Marks71BB

If he load center is full you could steal one of the double breaker spaces to install a sub-panel. Then run whatever you displaced off the sub panel but the logistics gets tricky. You would need to run the 2 new circuits off that sub panel and depending on the distances it may or may not exist more cost effective.
A new load center is yer best bet, the 150 amp service would likely suffice simply if yer upgrading the load centre ya may equally well up the service to 200 amp. How old is the business firm? get pics of the existing service.

AllGoNoShow

Its nearly a fifty foot run to the attached garage from the main service panel.

The house is built in the early on 1980s. The main feed is all buried cloak-and-dagger to wherever the main hook-upwards is at the street and then that is why the cost for just upgrading to 200AMPs is so high ($2500+). The quote to just upgrade the existing service console box to 30 breaker spots, install new breakers (keeping the 150 AMP service), then use the sometime service panel box every bit a sub-console in the garage with 100AMP service and run (2) 220V lines off that was $1000.

Marks71BB

$1,000 isn't bad if it includes the materials. If he is a qualified electrician I would say become for it.

Unless you anticipate using several heavy loads simultaneously and then the 150 amp service should be more than adequate for a house that size.

Gary S

My house has a 150amp service panel, and my garage has a 100amp sub-panel run off the house panel. I run my 240v compressor and (2) 240v heaters in winter off the garage panel, and I can tell you that 150 amp service is totally adequate for my use. Usually, I'k not using the compressor when I'g running both heaters.

If your employ isn't heavier than mine, your existing 150amp panel should exist adequate besides.

RDB123

What type heat exercise you lot have in your dwelling house? If you lot take gas heat and a gas stove you lot could run a 60 amp circuit to garage on a 6-3 wire and be ok. If you take electric heat your 150 amp won't be big enough.

AllGoNoShow

Thank you for the replies guys.

Can anyone who actually has one of the Ingersoll Rand 5hp 60 Gallon one Phase Air COmpressor's let me know what size/style the plug is so I can make sure they install the right outlet? Eventually Id like to get information technology hardwired but I won't be ownership the bodily air compressor for a few months.

sponge003

Thanks for the replies guys.
Can anyone who actually has 1 of the Ingersoll Rand 5hp 60 Gallon one Phase Air COmpressor's permit me know what size/mode the plug is so I can make sure they install the right outlet? Eventually Id like to get information technology hardwired just I won't be buying the actual air compressor for a few months.

Mine is a lilliputian older but did not come with a plug on it so you could buy the plug yous needed and wire information technology up.

night rider

No plug comes with them. I accept the same IR sixty gal. compressor as you.
On the top, behind the ball valve lever is a black box. Inside that box is your screw terms for wires.

Yous have to run your ain wire from breaker box (or in my case 240V outlet) to compressor.

I used 12/2 w ground wire and bought a plug that matched the outlet I was plugging it into