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GanjaGod420000

GanjaGod420000

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Yes, tiptopper... You r correct in your thinking... The higher the voltage, the lower the amperage, all day long... You can figure these amperage, voltage, resistance, or wattage questions out easily using Ohm's law formulas: P = I X E, and E = I X R, P-Power, or Watts, I-Current, or Amps, R-Resistance, or Ohms, and E-Voltage, or Volts... A 220VAC supply would reduce your ampere draw on any mullti-tap ballast, that can also be wired to work on 110VAC, which will ALWAYS pull more power... You can load up your circuits to about 80% of the rated load... In other words, a single pole 20A breaker will safely carry a 16A load. And you can out however many ballasts on that circuit as 16 amps will allow you to, not going over the 80% load, or 16 amps in this hypothetical case...
 
Trulife69

Trulife69

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I got a question for ya...Main Panel is outside...Ran 60amp breaker and added smaller mini panel inside. Mini panel has 2 30 amp breakers and 2 20 amp breakers. I need to re route the wire to one of the 30 amp breakers in mini panel... If the 60amp breakers is shut off that feeds my mini panel,is the whole mini panel dead???Could a guy stick his hand in the panel and wouldnt get shocked?? I think there is only 3 wires to the 30 amp breaker...1 wire to breaker and 2 wires to the neutral bar but noone wants to get shocked. Would shutting off the main on the outside panel kill all the juice so noone has to worry about getting shocked from mini panel?? Putting the wires back where they were hooked up will be easy but affraid of getting shocked. will touching the neutral bar shock you? Also..when adding breaker,do you plug breaker into panel and then wire to breaker and then neutral bar or hows that work
Thanks
 
phillipchristian

phillipchristian

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Trulife69 said:
I got a question for ya...Main Panel is outside...Ran 60amp breaker and added smaller mini panel inside. Mini panel has 2 30 amp breakers and 2 20 amp breakers. I need to re route the wire to one of the 30 amp breakers in mini panel... If the 60amp breakers is shut off that feeds my mini panel,is the whole mini panel dead???Could a guy stick his hand in the panel and wouldnt get shocked?? I think there is only 3 wires to the 30 amp breaker...1 wire to breaker and 2 wires to the neutral bar but noone wants to get shocked. Would shutting off the main on the outside panel kill all the juice so noone has to worry about getting shocked from mini panel?? Putting the wires back where they were hooked up will be easy but affraid of getting shocked. will touching the neutral bar shock you? Also..when adding breaker,do you plug breaker into panel and then wire to breaker and then neutral bar or hows that work
Thanks
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Shutting off the breaker outside will cut current to the box and you will be fine. Doesn't matter which you do first; wiring the breaker first or installing it. I usually install them first the wire them cleanly. Good luck.
 
GanjaGod420000

GanjaGod420000

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Does the 60A sub panel inside feed the mini panel, via a double pole breaker? If the mini panel is fed that way, u can just turn it off from the inside panel, but if the subpanel's feeders are going into double barrel lugs, that the mini panel is being fed from also, then u should def kill both sub panels inside via the 60A brkr outside... It wouldn't be a bad idea for some of these weekend wiremen to go and buy a ten dollar NCV, or No Contact Voltage tester, comonly called hotsticks in the field, to use to check for voltage on anything they may be working on that is electrical... Check a known voltage source, like a receptacle first, to make sure it is working properly, then the equipment or device u r working on, and then check the known voltage source again... This is what we call the "Live, dead, live" check... Safety is paramount when working with electricity... And for the weekend wiremen out there, reading a how to book from Home Depot, does not qualify one as a liscensed, professional electrician, so please stop, and get a competant craftsman to do something, if u find yourself unsure of what to do next... It's definately not worth dying for... Just looking out for everyone's well-being here... Electrical safety is a huge part of my everyday life...at work, and at home in my own garden and house...
 
phillipchristian

phillipchristian

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GanjaGod420000 said:
Does the 60A sub panel inside feed the mini panel, via a double pole breaker? If the mini panel is fed that way, u can just turn it off from the inside panel, but if the subpanel's feeders are going into double barrel lugs, that the mini panel is being fed from also, then u should def kill both sub panels inside via the 60A brkr outside... It wouldn't be a bad idea for some of these weekend wiremen to go and buy a ten dollar NCV, or No COntact Voltage, tester, comonly called hotsticks in the field, to use to check for voltage on anything they may be working on that is electrical... Check a known voltage source, like a receptacle first, to make sure it is working properly, then the equipment or device u r working on, and then check the known voltage source again... This is what we call the "Live, dead, live" check... Safety is paramount when working with electricity... And for the weekend wiremen out there, reading a how to book from Home Depot, does not qualify one as a liscensed, professional electrician, so please stop, and get a competant craftsman to do something, if u find yourself unsure of what to do next... It's definately not worth dying for... Just looking out for everyone's well-being here... Electrical safety is a huge part of my everyday life...at work, and at home in my own garden and house...
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Great advice.
 
GanjaGod420000

GanjaGod420000

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Thank u for saying that man... Im on here all the time telling folks HPS ballasts will indeed fire MH lamps of the same(and lesser)wattages, but that it won't work in reverse...as MH ballasts do not have an ignitor, which HPS lamps require to strike on...
mygirls said:
yes you forgot to mention that you can run a mh bulb in a hps ballast other then that sounds good.:bigjoint:
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GanjaGod420000

GanjaGod420000

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Something should be said for shitty timers that Ive seen cause more fires than anything in mj grows, where the grower shouldve totally had a real electrician use a separate control circuit, time clock, and actual lighting contactors, with individual lighting circuits in a Hoffman box, or other enclosed set up, instead of those cheap little timers that are often surface mounted on plywood, and not at all intended to handle, the massive, constant loads placed on them by H.I.D. grow lights...
 
Trulife69

Trulife69

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yea I was hoping you could help me out. I recently added new sheet rock over the old plaster board and kept the old electric outlet boxs and just pulled them through the new cut hole. these boxs are old and have no way to attach to anything. I have heard of these clips called....battleships?? I think is what they are called and you attach to side of box and fasten to sheetrock. Do you know anything about these? Im trying to find the name and cant find them anywhere but not sure what to do unless I want to buy all new boxs for house. Let me know
Thanks
 
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