Tutorial, Adding extra power lines to the grow room.

to answer your question mr. marge, transformers step up or step down volt amps (or wattages). your doorbell uses a step down transformer and converts the 120V input to 12v output that runs the bell.

User24 said:

just so you all know, I am working on it, I dont plan to release it tonight, it will probably be at least tomorrow if not tuesday after work. I decided to do it 100% right from the start, as you can kill yourself.

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True dat.

All I know is I bought 30' of 6/3 wire, a Sub panel, and all my needed breakers, some 12 guage wire, two GFCI outlets, and four normal outlets.

so I am ready for it as soon as its posted. (waiting very patiently )

ganjagoddess said:

All I know is I bought 30' of 6/3 wire, a Sub panel, and all my needed breakers, some 12 guage wire, two GFCI outlets, and four normal outlets.

so I am ready for it as soon as its posted. (waiting very patiently )

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I am not an electrician. My understanding of a GFCI, it would require GFCI breaker and wiring from the main panel to be a 'true' GFCI Circuit. I have been wrong before, I just want you safe. VV

Well like it was mentioned to me in a previous post in this thread by Kushmonsta.

You just need to put a Leviton GFCI in the fist a the series of outlets and it will protect all the rest.

The Actual Breaker in many ways is also a GFCI right.

Either way I think this will all get cleared up in a few when the tutortial actually gets posted.

No the actual breaker is not a GFCI. A gfci breaker has a trip switch on it, mine is yellow, you can easily indentify which one it is. It also costs about $30.00 for the 20 amp size compared to less than $5.00 for a regular 20 amp breaker. I still think the gfci receptacles trip faster in any case. I installed one, I was told it was necessary to meet code and since I was doing all of the work myself not meeting code would have been putting my friendly electrician's license at risk. He pulled the permit for the job, meet the electrical inspector at my house to discuss the work ahead of time. I paid him what he asked, $100.00. He had to pay $35.00 for the permit. He never asked for the money until after final inspection and approval. I am done discussing this issue. VV

Gotcha Thanks Victor, that did clarify some things up for me.

Also For the rest of this thread check out this link.

Adding New Electrical Circuits - Installing A Sub-Panel - An Overview

I followed it to a tee, and it is working out great.

I used 6/3 wire to run off of a 60 amp breaker in my main panel to my sub.

Then I have (4) 15 amp 120v lines coming off there to only 1 (dual) outlet each

I have 3 1000 watt lights, each gets there own dedicated 15 amp circuit, and a 4th 15 amp circut for fans, pumps, misc.

And Yes after alot of research 6/3 guage wire is rated for 55 amps, but is allowed to go to 60 amps since 55 isnt a standard breaker size.

Are you saying you just did this? If so.. got pix? I'm weird, I like to take pictures of things I've done. For instance, I have pictures on my computer of every computer I've built. I have a HUGE folder dedicated to my bike. To my plants (I have folders on ALL of my computers for my garden )... Ok, I'm weird.

it will be in a bit, I am first

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