davewill said:
JohnKuthe said:
I had an electrician came over today and what this house really needs is a new inside panel and both 120V and 240V lines run in PVC pipe back to the garage. Extensive and expensive! But luckily I will have the money VERY soon! When I also buy this house, post electrical upgrade value of course!
John Kuthe...
I'd get a second opinion before I spent extra. I don't get why he would run two circuits to the garage, though. Wouldn't it make more sense to put a subpanel in the garage and run just one circuit? From the subpanel, he could wire both 240v and 120v circuits.
Not sure of the latest as this thread is now approaching 6 pages
but at one point John was thinking about 3 separate 50a circuits if I remember correctly. Personally I'd just run say a 60a 240v feed to the garage(along with a neutral for 120v outlets) and feed a sub panel. From there I'd
think one could feed the (3) 30a circuits, the max our Leafs can charge anyway. I suppose they could also feed 3 50a circuits but know that if you were indeed drawing close to 50a on one of the outlets, you wouldn't have much left over for other things/EVSEs. Of course your sub panel and wiring would be protected by a 60a breaker in the main house panel.
Note there might be a code relating to the minimum breaker to a panel that had 3 50a breakers in it, that would be for the electrician to look into.