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How Much Power?
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In talking with my electrical contractor today, we're going to do some trenching to get power out to a couple of HVAC units, and isolation transformer and power to a small electronics shop.

He suggested that while we're trenching, that we go ahead and trench all the way to the new woodshop.

My question is this... about how much power (phase, amperage and #circuits) would make sense to put in a 12x16 shop?

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Re: How Much Power?

I have 100 amp service to my 24x24 shop and find it adequate. USE type cable in AL is available and beats the heck out of copper in price. I ran my twisted 2-2-2-4 cable in 1 1/2 PVC conduit from the main house panel to the shop subpanel.
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