BTW - I feel confident that I can wire it up if someone knows what they are doing. Seems like a small 30 amp panel, but I have no idea what I would need to build it.
..And another question. When I went to my main electrical panel.. I noticed that the circuit breaker says 50 amp and the receptical is 30 amp, what gives?
lost why would you want it in 120 ? you can run twice the amount of lights at 240. not to be a dick but if you have to ask how to build a panel you should just go buy one. your safety is more important than 200 bucks.c.a.p makes a nice one MLC-4X Light Controller for a 128 bucks all you need to wire in is the dryer plug.
just get a small sub pan,rated for50 or more amps,or if you are not sure,take off dryer recep,hook up 4 outlet plugs,about 12amps each will be avail,say 10amps to be safe,put a6-way,surge protector,put all small amp devices on 6-way,you can divide up,make sure to know the amp rate of every device you plug in, good luck kindindy
Well, i went to home depot..
Bought a 70 amp breaker box with a 240/ 30 a circutbreaker. Wired that to the dryer recepticle. Wired the breaker box to the CAP lighting controller. Im set. Very easy, just scarry!!
Ill post up what I did, with pics in another thread..
Everything is upgradeable. The current to my dryer is 50 or 60 amps (well the circut breaker for it is), and its got 3 hot lines in the recepticle. Im using 2 and the ground for my aux breaker box. I can goto a 40 amp system with the change of a circut breaker :)
Never look at breakers to see what you can use, look at the wire size feeding your subpanel. Some fool before you might have put a 50a breaker on 14 gu wire. If it was your first install now that the rush is over check your connections. Most problems are caused by loose connections,tape your wire nuts if you used them. JK
Pull your feed line back out and strip the insulation. Put some clamps on your sub on you lines coming in and out. If the sub is hanging crooked from hanging of one screw use more.JK
I used romex 10/2 wire. I looked at some chart online and it said to use that. Am i ok? I have the breaker in by 3 screws, my photo skills suck is the issue :)