Re: [sudo-discuss] Sudoroom electrical plans

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