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Jasen Betts
Until the motor or compressor is replaced with a larger unit.
a larger compresser is likely to have a soft start where the pump
compression is releived until it's up to speed.
Until the motor or compressor is replaced with a larger unit.
The suggestion was to put in a sub panel, if there is a likelyhood of
more tools that require 240.
Those are toys, but they might be acceptable to amateur woodworkers.
The ONLY thing I use a compressor that small for is to blow dust out of
a computer.
How much wire have you pulled?
Yawn, that's a dimbulb sized stawman.
Certainly.
Even when they are across the production floor from the main
breaker box? I can see you've never worked around a machine shop.
Yawn. He change that to 3 HP but as usual, you just want a pissing
match. Yes, you can use a nailer with a tiny compressor if you don't
mind it running constantly, and having to work slow because of the
recovery time. My dad is a retired cabinet maker, and won't use
anything under a 2 HP compressor for his nailers.
"approaching 36 wire"?
I've run into a lot of places where they had a pullsting in with
wires. It gets wrapped around the wires as it's pulled in, then srticks
to the inside of the conduit if they use pulling lube. Attempting to
pull in more wire doesn't work too well if there are any bends in the
conduit. The last pullstring I ran into was with some fiber optic
cables. I had to pull everything out of the conduit because they were
tangled. Then I had to use the fiber to pull in a piece of Cat5 cable
which was used to pull the fiber back, with several Cat5 cables.
Yes.
You never think things through.
Then you go on the attack, like Dimbulb, Allison or Sloman.
Clueless.
I said I would run AWG 10 for a compressor,
OR AWG 6 to a sub panel, if it made sense.
Sense is something you
frequently lack. When I wired my 30' * 40' garage, it only had lights
but I used a 100A 20 circuit breaker box. The big tools will eventually
be installed near that box, but if any end up in the opposite corner,
I'll run a 1.5" conduit, some AWG 6 and install a sub panel in that
corner. There is a concept in wiring buildings called 'Futures' where a
few extra breakers are installed in a new panel, and conduit is stubbed
from the breaker box up into the ceiling or attic while the walls are
open. That allows two things. If a breaker fails, a replacement is
available. If a new circuit is needed, the conduit is run to an
accessible spot, and doesn't require messy & time consuming work in an
occupied building.
More than once I was called to a school when something critical was
down and found a failed breaker. I used the spare, and they ordered a
replacement. Simple, and cheap insurance.
wires. It gets wrapped around the wires as it's pulled in, then srticks
to the inside of the conduit if they use pulling lube. Attempting to
pull in more wire doesn't work too well if there are any bends in the
conduit. The last pullstring I ran into was with some fiber optic
cables. I had to pull everything out of the conduit because they were
tangled. Then I had to use the fiber to pull in a piece of Cat5 cable
which was used to pull the fiber back, with several Cat5 cables.
YES!!DaveC said:Air compressor 1/2 hp motor rated 220v (2-wire, not 3-phase) @ 15A. Distance
from load panel ~100 ft (as the conduit runs).
15A can be handled by 14 gauge, but I'd normally go with 12 gauge due to
start current.
With such a distance, is it recommend to up-scale the wire to 10 ga?
Thanks.
Those things can happen but they have never happened to me if I was theThat's been my (limited) experience too.
Hell, we had six breaker boxes on the production floor at Microdyne
for outlets for workbenches on a 200' * 190' production area. Then
there was a power room with over 200 breakers for the other equipment.
Certainly that you've never worked in a machine shop?
Sigh. He's RETIRED. He built more than cabinets in his home shop.
He has more than a nailer that needs compressed air in his shop. Go hump
someone else's leg.
You end up living in Alabama.
Some people also pull THHN or CAT5 off the box spool the same way, alsoThe biggest thing is to make sure the wires go in straight. Kinks or
twists will make life miserable later. I've seen people pull Romex
off the center of the roll, without unrolling it. It makes a mess;
bad enough when pulling through rafters but it's a disaster in
conduit.
That must have been a tiny shop.
He said he was going to suggest it to the owner, so who knows.
Not anymore. He worked for a schoolboard in their maintenece
complex. They had a MACHINE SHOP, cabinet shop and garage where they
did maintenece on all their vehicles. They had in house support for
everything except new costruction & roofing
Keep showing your petty ignorance.