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Code says only one circuit can be run to the shed. All the info is above.
The ONLY way to do this legally is by installing a sub-panel, so answering your questions "as asked" would be non-compliant and dangerous.So could someone give me a step-by-step guide, with NEC citations, as to how to proceed if I want to have 1 20A 240V circuit, and 2 20A 120V circuits, with a maximum load of 24A total, in an unattached shed 50' from the house?
can someone get it into my thick head why it is either illegal or hazardous?
answering your questions "as asked" would be non-compliant and dangerous.
No, step one in the answers is "You need to install a subpanel." Now, go on to step 2...The ONLY way to do this legally is by installing a sub-panel, so answering your questions "as asked" would be non-compliant and dangerous.
Pull in three #8 THWN (two blacks and a white) and one #10 green. Colored tape is also not compliant....but that's a whole nother thread.
Terminate the ground wire in a ground bus kit that will screw to your panel enclosure. Make sure the neutral bus is isolated from the enclosure. Terminate the other end on a 2 pole 50 amp breaker. The ground and neutral wil go on the same bus if the panel is the service. Look and see how the other circuits are terminated.
Run your 120 and 240 circuits from the new sub.
Or stick with plan A.
Why not a 60A breaker?
Why not a grounding electrode at the shed?
So could someone give me a step-by-step guide, with NEC citations, as to how to proceed if I want to have 1 20A 240V circuit, and 2 20A 120V circuits, with a maximum load of 24A total, in an unattached shed 50' from the house?
That's all I have on my truck
Assuming no metalic piping to a "shed"..........right?
No.No, step one in the answers is "You need to install a subpanel." Now, go on to step 2...
Right!You still need a grounding electrode system. unless of course you only ran 1 circuit out to the structure.
Right!
Didn't we go over this already?
You still need a grounding electrode system. unless of course you only ran 1 circuit out to the structure.
Even someone as loving and patient as me gets tired of holding DIYer's hands through jobs they are not knowledgeable enough to do.
This has been NEC 250.32 for quite a long time. Even before internet message boards.I thought I learned from the message boards that no ground rod was needed if there was no piping that connected the structures. My bad.
Interesting parallel. Just as the tax code is pretty useless in helping someone prepare his taxes, the NEC is pretty useless in guiding someone through even simple electrical work. Kind of like using a dictionary to learn a foreign language.If you need "a step-by-step guide" to installing a sub-panel maybe it's a job better left to a pro.
I don't ask my accountant for a a step-by-step guide to doing my taxes. SHE is the pro, I let her do them.