Zarezhu
Member
Hey all,
I moved into an extremely private house with a lot of land. There is a detached garage out back, with a 30A breaker feeding it from the houses main panel. My plan is to replace it with a 60A breaker, I will NOT overload the 100A main panel as I wont be using much electricity in the home. I was hoping to run a grow inside a trailer with its own subpanel. I would park it right outside the garage, and run a line from the garages subpanel to the trailers subpanel.
First question:
Can I safely replace the 30A garage breaker from the main panel, with a 60A breaker, provided the gauge of the wiring to the subpanel in the garage is adequate enough? I will NOT overload the houses 100A panel, even with 50 amps continuous draw. I have gas appliances, I use little power regardless.
Second question:
Given that I have a 60A breaker feeding the subpanel in the garage, Can I also put in a 50/60A breaker into the subpanel inside the garage in order to run it to my LAST subpanel, the panel feeding the wiring for a 26' gutted trailer. This subpanel would have a 20A breaker for 240v lights, a 15A breaker for my minisplit, and a 15A breaker for my 120 outlets. This trailer would be the new grow room, and would be perfect as I could move it at a moments notice, and I would not be doing any permanent work to the house/garage.
Third question:
I know its tough to guess, but do the wires feeding the garages subpanel look like they are at least thick enough for a 60A breaker? They seem massive to me. I had a sparky run 120'+ of wire to my last indoor, which was also a 60A panel, and the gauge of the wire seemed significantly smaller.
I might as well add, I intend to have an electrician do all the work. I'm just hoping to get an idea from you guys before I go out and purchase the trailer and start dumping a bunch of money into this grow.
I would even love to upgrade the main panel, but I have 11 months left on this lease, and it may be too risky to ask the landlord if I could pay for a panel upgrade for no good reason.
This is a pic of the wires going from the main panel to the subpanel in the garage.
I moved into an extremely private house with a lot of land. There is a detached garage out back, with a 30A breaker feeding it from the houses main panel. My plan is to replace it with a 60A breaker, I will NOT overload the 100A main panel as I wont be using much electricity in the home. I was hoping to run a grow inside a trailer with its own subpanel. I would park it right outside the garage, and run a line from the garages subpanel to the trailers subpanel.
First question:
Can I safely replace the 30A garage breaker from the main panel, with a 60A breaker, provided the gauge of the wiring to the subpanel in the garage is adequate enough? I will NOT overload the houses 100A panel, even with 50 amps continuous draw. I have gas appliances, I use little power regardless.
Second question:
Given that I have a 60A breaker feeding the subpanel in the garage, Can I also put in a 50/60A breaker into the subpanel inside the garage in order to run it to my LAST subpanel, the panel feeding the wiring for a 26' gutted trailer. This subpanel would have a 20A breaker for 240v lights, a 15A breaker for my minisplit, and a 15A breaker for my 120 outlets. This trailer would be the new grow room, and would be perfect as I could move it at a moments notice, and I would not be doing any permanent work to the house/garage.
Third question:
I know its tough to guess, but do the wires feeding the garages subpanel look like they are at least thick enough for a 60A breaker? They seem massive to me. I had a sparky run 120'+ of wire to my last indoor, which was also a 60A panel, and the gauge of the wire seemed significantly smaller.
I might as well add, I intend to have an electrician do all the work. I'm just hoping to get an idea from you guys before I go out and purchase the trailer and start dumping a bunch of money into this grow.
I would even love to upgrade the main panel, but I have 11 months left on this lease, and it may be too risky to ask the landlord if I could pay for a panel upgrade for no good reason.
This is a pic of the wires going from the main panel to the subpanel in the garage.