Resistance test on cores of buried cable (Ed.)
Resistance test on cores of buried cable (Ed.)
Okay, so here is my situation. I am pulling a 20 amp circuit from my garage, 150' to pillars at the end of my driveway. A buddy had 4 runs of 150' of 8 gauge wire he had pulled from underground, because he needed more amperage to his workshop. Like an idiot, because I was looking at today's problem, not tomorrow's, I ran 1.25" PVC for the run, 24" underground (per code here), pulled three wires through, and buried it. Unfortunately, work (real job) interfered, and it was 2 weeks before I...
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Resistance test on cores of buried cable (Ed.)
Okay, so here is my situation. I am pulling a 20 amp circuit from my garage, 150' to pillars at the end of my driveway. A buddy had 4 runs of 150' of 8 gauge wire he had pulled from underground, because he needed more amperage to his workshop. Like an idiot, because I was looking at today's problem, not tomorrow's, I ran 1.25" PVC for the run, 24" underground (per code here), pulled three wires through, and buried it. Unfortunately, work (real job) interfered, and it was 2 weeks before I...
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by forumscout
This has been automatically posted in the DIYNot Forum on DIY Talk. The new DIY Forum