In the garden, and RAIN!!!! by SIGNYM

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In the garden, and RAIN!!!!

POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 17:55
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Sunday, June 19, 2022 3:51 PM

I'm okay Jack and the computer and modem seem to have settled down. But I will be keeping an eye on them just for safety's sake.

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Sunday, June 19, 2022 4:19 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Fantastic day in the garage.

There was no way I was going to do all of this in one day, but I worked until 10PM and made the most of it.

Before I built those shelves, I bent and ran pipe through the walls and put four boxes in and also ran wire through, but never did any more than that at the time. I also bent and ran the pipe through the back wall to put two boxes there. Today, all of that was connected to the main. It all comes in the garage with 12gauge wire, and it's on two separate 20 Amp circuits. All of the lights and the overhead door opener are on one circuit. All of the outlets are on the other circuit.

On the side wall and the back wall I now have 20 outlets. Obviously even with a 20 Amp circuit if I ran a bunch of stuff on all of them at once it would blow the circuit, but that's not the point. I want to be able to plug in stuff anywhere I want to without any hassle.

I also repurposed one of my two switches by the service door. One controlled the lights over my main work bench on the side wall opposite of the new outlets, and the other one controlled four outlets below the switch box. Now those four outlets are powered all of the time, and the second switch controls the overhead lights.

I've only installed two of the four I will be installing, but they are BRIIIIIIIGHT!!!!!

It was a good day.

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just as an aside... you might want to have a light plugged into that second circuit. That way, if the light circuit breaker pops, you'll still have light in the garage to be able to find your way around. Most rooms, if wired properly, are serviced by at least two different circuit breakers so they will never be entirely without electricity if a circuit breaker blows.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake

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Sunday, June 19, 2022 4:34 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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6IXSTRINGJACK:
You don't have A/C? Is it getting hotter than usual for you up there? I don't remember you having an issue like this last summer.

BRENDA: No I don't have AC and that would be great for the computer and such but would make me too cold.

Keeping the curtains closed last summer seemed to work but this year. I don't know what is happening. I've got the fan on the modem and that seems to have snapped the computer back into shape.

It was either yesterday or Thursday that I couldn't get the tower to shut off and that was when I brought out the fans for everything. That got the tower and stuff to snap back. So I am at it again today.

The wiring overloading is what set off the smoke detector a couple of months ago

Oh dear! This is where I came to a screeching halt.

You had a wiring overload that actually caused smoke and set off a smoke detector??? That's some serious shit bc that could start a fire and burn the building down!

The circuit breaker should have shut the current off to prevent that! Was it the wires in the wall that overheated, or an electric/electronic device that overheated?

AFA your modem and monitor... modems that seriously overheated should be replaced. Many monitors have ventilation slots and internal fans. Vacuum the slots out if they're clogged.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake

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Sunday, June 19, 2022 5:41 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Fantastic day in the garage.

There was no way I was going to do all of this in one day, but I worked until 10PM and made the most of it.

Before I built those shelves, I bent and ran pipe through the walls and put four boxes in and also ran wire through, but never did any more than that at the time. I also bent and ran the pipe through the back wall to put two boxes there. Today, all of that was connected to the main. It all comes in the garage with 12gauge wire, and it's on two separate 20 Amp circuits. All of the lights and the overhead door opener are on one circuit. All of the outlets are on the other circuit.

On the side wall and the back wall I now have 20 outlets. Obviously even with a 20 Amp circuit if I ran a bunch of stuff on all of them at once it would blow the circuit, but that's not the point. I want to be able to plug in stuff anywhere I want to without any hassle.

I also repurposed one of my two switches by the service door. One controlled the lights over my main work bench on the side wall opposite of the new outlets, and the other one controlled four outlets below the switch box. Now those four outlets are powered all of the time, and the second switch controls the overhead lights.

I've only installed two of the four I will be installing, but they are BRIIIIIIIGHT!!!!!

It was a good day.

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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
just as an aside... you might want to have a light plugged into that second circuit. That way, if the light circuit breaker pops, you'll still have light in the garage to be able to find your way around. Most rooms, if wired properly, are serviced by at least two different circuit breakers so they will never be entirely without electricity if a circuit breaker blows.

Well, aside from the garage door opener, there won't be much load on that 20AMP circuit with all of the lights because new LED tech is awesome and I can keep the entire garage lit up for less than half the wattage my dusty old 2-lamp halogen work lights used to put out. They're 60 watt 4-panel bulbs that put out 5,000 lumens each. 30,000 LUMENS BABY! So to use all 6 at one time would be 40 watts less than one of those halogen bulbs used to cost to run. (I'm really thinking about getting rid of that thing now that I have cordless LED alternatives that are ALMOST as good as it was)

Even if I had all 6 of those lights on (360 watts), my garage door opener running (600 peak watts), and the four not-very bright halogen bulbs over my work bench that I'm going to replace soon (360 watts), that would still be only 1320 watts which is safely 400+ watts under what a 15 AMP circuit can handle, and this circuit is 20 amps.

The bigger concern would be the fact that I have all of my outlets prone to a heavy load all on a the other circuit, but I'd have to be running about 3 of them in tandem to overload the circuit so I'm not worried about that. I've only got two hands.

In fact, just because it's easier, I will probably add the external outlet at the front of the garage to the first light breaker, which would make it the only thing that would take on a bigger load other than the garage door opener. It's most likely only going to be used for power washing the driveway. But since the average power usage of a power washer is 1,500 watts, I'm going to want to make sure I don't have all the lights on in my garage and I'm opening the garage door while I'm using it.

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Sunday, June 19, 2022 6:49 PM