5 Sep
2014
5 Sep
'14
3:25 p.m.
Hi Whit,
that sub-panel is supplied by a double-breaker in the main breaker-box in
the bar ice room. We can switch it off and lock it out while we work on
it.
I am saying there is literally nothing powered by that sub-panel besides
maybe the light in that upstairs room that looks like a bedroom and has a
ceiling fan. There is nobody to consult or ask permission, we can just do
it.
There are federal-pacific breakers in other boxes in the building (aka
fire hazards, they are crappy breakers that should have been recalled) but
this is not one of them. This is an ordinary, modern breaker box, in
slightly the wrong place.
I am assuming that the wiring to supply that box would reach equally well
if it were moved downward, but that may not be the case. If it is not,
and it would be annoying to move that box, we can just leave it there and
go on with phase one. It's fine where it is.
-jake
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Whitney Lawrence wrote:
Jake,I like the way you think. I can say I'm not
looking forward to coordinating with whomever/whatever is being supplied from that
sub-panel, and getting
into a territorial dispute along the lines of "but we're planning on using
that". I'm OK with commandeering the panel. Also I'd prefer not to have to
move
the box. Do you think its critical that the sub panel be relocated to face into sudo? If
so- so be it. Finally, I'm not sure the utilization of the
existing panel addresses the inspection concern of "those panels are fire
hazards" because I'm not familiar with the model details/differences.
Whit
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote:
I believe the electrical panel in the balcony only supplies one or two things (not
including the robot, which is a temporary connection)
I think we should look into simply moving that breaker box down ten feet so it
faces the server room, and be done with it.
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Whitney Lawrence wrote:
Howdy,Let me begin with thanking you for looking at the proposal. Your
interpretation of the plans is
correct.{ Main -> above stage panel -> balcony panel } is how the
proposed plan is drawn. There is enough room
in the balcony panel (which is the one located in the small room that shares
a wall with the server loft of
sudoroom) to accomplish phase 1 of the proposal. The proposal is based on
instruction received to minimize
cost. Ideally, there would be a main panel breaker that supplies a sub panel
for all of sudo's needs (phase 1
and phase 2). I can't accurately guess at a cost number for this type of
installation. Figure a 100amp sub
with hundreds of feet of 2awg plus breaker box plus breakers plus conduit
plus hardware. All depending on if
the main service can even handle the additional power demands (hiring an
electrician to run the calcs).
Ballpark $3-5k maybe- but its really a shot in the dark?
My experience with this type of thing is there is always a better way to do
it, if you go the money.
A middle road is to plan on having the future sudo-sub panel placed near the
balcony panel. Build in an extra
5ft or so of wire for the future transition into the new sudo-sub panel. All
that would be needed is to remove
the breakers from the old box re-run wire from J-box 1 to the new sudo-sub,
as well as re-routing the 240V
lines from the above stage panel to the sudo-sub (and of course preform all
the main -> suod-sub work).
as far as existing vs proposed. only the sub panels mentioned above exist
currently- I'll make a note to call
out the existing stuff in the drawings.
Thanks,
Whit
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Cere Mona Davis <ceremona(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi everyone. It's the first time I have looked at these plans and
I have some questions and
thoughts. Dave said he won't be able to respond to this email
until a couple of days as he is out
in the boonies somewhere. So I am writing in to expedite some issues
that I think he will likely
bring up in the days ahead.
Whit, thanks for drawing up these plans! For someone who is not intimately
familiar with our electrical
layout the plans might need a more clear description of existing electrical
vs. proposed new electrical,
however.
In multiple conversations with Dave (and one on-site visit) he has mentioned
repeatedly that we will
want to shoot for putting in another sub panel for the sudoroom off of the
main panel as the end-game;
rather than daisy-chaining off of an existing panel (the balcony) as what
seems to be proposed here.
If we can't immediately put in a sub panel into the room, due to cost, we
should at-least be planning
for conduit and wiring paths, etc that allows for a sudoroom sub-panel in the
future.
Thoughts?
-Cere
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:23 AM, <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote:
Thanks Yar! Whit can you liaise w/ Dave RE how much of the work is
going to be done under
the first permit?
Cheers,
Hol
On 2014-09-04 23:16, yar wrote:
Hi all, Dave Pedroli is a certified electrician who's offered to
review our plans to give them an okay. I'm copying him and the people
who've been most involved with electrical work.
Dave, the latest plans are attached, and also available online[1].
Could you please look them over and write us a few formal-sounding
sentences that boil down to "hello I am a real electrician and I say
these plans are solid"? This will help us make the landlord happy so
he will let us do them. Thank you!!
[1]
https://lists.sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-discuss/2014-August/007369.html
--
Best Regards,
Cere Davis
ceremona(a)gmail.com
-------------------
GPG Key: http://taffy.findpage.com/~cere/pubkey.asc
GPG fingerprint (ID# 73FCA9E6) : F5C7 627B ECBE C735 117B 2278 9A95 4C88
73FC A9E6