Phoenix Gold Phorum

Hey guys,

I didnt know where exactly to put this but it involves car audio too so i fig id post the whole job im doing here.

I have a 2.5 car detached garage. I bought this house in jan of this year. Well thw hkuse was built in 1928. Its roughly 3k sqft, 4 levels, basement, 2 living floors and a full walk around attic.

Welk the house was redone last year including electrical but the garage was not. It still had tube n knob ran to it and thru out. One of my biggest goals was to get it updated and upgraded.

I wanted at least 100amp service to it with at least 6 circuits thruout. One dedicated for a high amp dc converter. Hehehe hence the car audik side why this is in this thread. I want a car audio setuo installed in the garage for lisgening purposes since i am out there a lot and i wanted to have a test bench.

Anyways heres what i aqujred yesterday. So ill be installing all of this, this weekend. Ill keepbthis thread updated as i move forward with the job.

Btw the wire i have is #2, w 4 independant runs. This allows me to have a 220v service out there too if i need too. So stoked about this.

Updates?

Sorry guys, ive been swamped with work and at home w things going on. I did get the electrical done but it took 2 weekends to run the service and another to fully do the garage.

So heres what she looks like coming out of my houses service panel.



I fully ran 1.25" schd 80 pvc conduit from the house all the way into the garage.

Heres the service going into the garage from where it was all buried.



Then i got a little 125amp service panel for up to 8 circuits. This is plenty for the garage.



So i have 5 circuits now. 1 for lights. 1 for 3 outlets on one half of the garage. 1 for the other half. Then 2 independent 20amp outlets. One is for heavy amp power tools and my compressor ans the other is for my garage stereo setup. I havent gotten a big dc converter yet. All circuits were ran with 12-2 wire.

So heres what 2/3 of garage looks like. The other 1/3 is where i park a car to work on behind me u dont see in the pic.



Its not the best setup but its my first garage and suites my needs.

Hope yall like it!

So a cost analysis of the job.....

#2 100 wire $60 (got it from a guy at work who didnt use)
100amp breaker for house $40
8 sticks and 6 90 bends of pvc $60
125amp panel $40
200ft of 12-2 $100
Box of 20amp outlets $30
6 4ft light fixtures $90

Labor blood, sweat, and one arch flash (dont ask) = shit my pants.

Total $420

Value.....PRICELESS!!!!

Give it a few months and you'll have that garage cluttered. Looks good, no electrical shocks?

No just an arch flash when i was redoing the grounds in the house service box, i thought i was arch welding something. Lol

I had to run a 220v line to the garage last year when I installed the compressor. It didn't take long in the crawl space to remind me why I did not want to become an electrician long ago. I am all for music in the garage but I can't say I get the idea of wasting all the power of going through a ac-dc power supply myself. I installed some 900mgz cordless speakers and drive them with an old laptop so I can stream music.