JeffV
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I am going to be building a garage addition in a couple months and have a couple questions regarding electrical service. My current service is 100amp (overhead), feeding into the side of my house where the garage addition is going to be built. I put in a work order w/ my power company and they came out and determined that I’m w/in the allowable distance for them to run underground service at no charge to me (up to 200amp).
My question is whether it is possible to go with a 200amp panel in my new garage and connect my existing 100amp panel to it, essentially turning the 100amp panel into a sub-panel? If this scenario is doable, my plan is to run the conduit/wire under the garage slab to connect the two panels - I’m doing this work on my own and want to do as much as the non-“hot†work as possible before having an electrician come out and make final connections. What type/size wire is used to connect the two panels? How about the conduit, 2â€, 2/5†or 3â€?
Thanks for any thoughts - Jeff
My question is whether it is possible to go with a 200amp panel in my new garage and connect my existing 100amp panel to it, essentially turning the 100amp panel into a sub-panel? If this scenario is doable, my plan is to run the conduit/wire under the garage slab to connect the two panels - I’m doing this work on my own and want to do as much as the non-“hot†work as possible before having an electrician come out and make final connections. What type/size wire is used to connect the two panels? How about the conduit, 2â€, 2/5†or 3â€?
Thanks for any thoughts - Jeff