Wiring a Detached Garage, Need Help.?
Question:I have 200amp service in my home and plan on running power to my detached garage which is 100 feet away. I'm going to run a 60amp breaker and sub panel in the garage using #6 wire. I want to bury the wire and wanted to know what type of wire I should use or how to go about it. 50 feet of the wire will be in my basement and the other 50 feet will be buried. If I use stranded wie buried in PVC, do I need to have some sort of sheathing around the section in my basement?
Any help or tips would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Answers:
If I was doing the job I would run 6-3 romex with ground from the electrical panel to were you will leave the house. In the basement I would install a 6by 6 by 4 pvc box From the box I would run a 1 1/4 inch pvc from the box through the hole you will drill to the outside. On the outside you will have a 11/4 inch pvc LB the 11/4 inc will run 18 inches into the ground Minimum.
From the pvc box in the basement you will run direct burial wire
6-3 UF with ground in the trench you have dug. When you get to your garage same thing pipe and LB to get into the garage, if you run the pipe up high enough you can go into the back of the sub Panel
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Well given what you want to do I suggest you visit you local town hall and find out what the statutes requirements are. You may not even be allowed to bury it.
You need to have wire rated for wet locations even though it is in conduit, because it is underground. UF rated wire would work best, it is actually rated for direct burial. Also would be legal in your basement unless conduit is required for exposed wiring. Your local inspectors should be able to help you further.
Danz pretty much got it, but you need a 6/4 conductor It is a Sub Panel requiring a Neutral, you will also have to drive an 8' ground rod outside the Garage for your sub panel in the garage with a #6 bare copper from the sub panel to your ground rod, If you use PVC Outside the minimum is 18" to the top of your conduit, if you use UF it's 24"...hope this helps
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