06-15-2008, 09:43 PM
I was tired of working in the garage lit only by three puny 60watt bulbs at least 10 feet up.
This week I put in a Home depot Genie garage door opener. comes with two remotes and all wiring. works like a champ. I have scaffolding for home repairs so with one scaffold level set up in that garage, it went really easily.
Next was the lighting issue. Home depot again for four 19.99 hanging light fixtures for T8 bulbs, all the boxes and conduit and swithches and wire and relays.
What i did (with the super assistance of my brother in law the electrician) was to run two new 20 amp circuits to the garage for the 'shop' side. about 60feet of 12/3 wire runs from two new 20amp breakers in the basement box and up into the gargage (comces up near the 220 outlet i installed for welding). this is so that each outlet quad at shelf level can handle 20 amps and not interfere wiht the other box. So now when the compressor kicks on, it does not blow the realy!
then we ran canduit around the corner about 1 foot off the ground and went up and down for one quad outlet box. This is one circuit and has its own GFI.
Next, we pulled the unused wires from the other circuit through the the next box you see between the windows.. Another GFI quad outlet setup. Through this, we ran power over to a switch and the up to the ceiling and over to another quad outlet box. This one not GFI locally, but GFI'd from its source(because i don;t think you want two GFI's on the same line..they pop each other). from the ceiling mount quad outlets, I plugged in four of the 19$ suspension lights . I use 6000 kelvin bulbs (29$ for 10 pack) and as you can see, there is more than enough light!!
about 250$ in supplies total and 3 hours in labor. (all to code , too!)
This week I put in a Home depot Genie garage door opener. comes with two remotes and all wiring. works like a champ. I have scaffolding for home repairs so with one scaffold level set up in that garage, it went really easily.
Next was the lighting issue. Home depot again for four 19.99 hanging light fixtures for T8 bulbs, all the boxes and conduit and swithches and wire and relays.
What i did (with the super assistance of my brother in law the electrician) was to run two new 20 amp circuits to the garage for the 'shop' side. about 60feet of 12/3 wire runs from two new 20amp breakers in the basement box and up into the gargage (comces up near the 220 outlet i installed for welding). this is so that each outlet quad at shelf level can handle 20 amps and not interfere wiht the other box. So now when the compressor kicks on, it does not blow the realy!
then we ran canduit around the corner about 1 foot off the ground and went up and down for one quad outlet box. This is one circuit and has its own GFI.
Next, we pulled the unused wires from the other circuit through the the next box you see between the windows.. Another GFI quad outlet setup. Through this, we ran power over to a switch and the up to the ceiling and over to another quad outlet box. This one not GFI locally, but GFI'd from its source(because i don;t think you want two GFI's on the same line..they pop each other). from the ceiling mount quad outlets, I plugged in four of the 19$ suspension lights . I use 6000 kelvin bulbs (29$ for 10 pack) and as you can see, there is more than enough light!!
about 250$ in supplies total and 3 hours in labor. (all to code , too!)
(This post was last modified: 06-15-2008, 09:47 PM by xrad.)
