Insofar as your electric situation. Keep in mind the amps you will be pulling. In my shop I have a single 14g electrical line the previous owners connected. It runs lights slpendedly, however, the Shopsmith Mark V pulls fifteen amp, the planer too, so, if you don't mind running into your house to reset breakers when you surge the line... blah blah blah. I think you see where I am heading with this.
I don't have any experience with home owners association (nazis), but I have worked with local codes, and the inspectors, in my experience, want you to succede. That is to say, they don't want you to burn down your house.
Just thought I'd offer some of my opinions on the topic.
Be good,
Drew
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Thanks everyone for all of the electrical advice. Today I went around the house to see what my options are. First off all of my home breakers are 20 amps. My house is wired for a electric dryer and range although I use propane so I am barely using my house electricity.
As was suggested by others my exterior outlets are gfi protected but share a circuit with other loads. In my specific case the outlet on the east side of the house shares with the bedroom lights and the west outlet shares with the living room lights.
The south exterior outlet that is right next to where the shed will be going is currently shared by a freezer in my laundry room. With a little shuffling that freezer will get plugged into the dedicated plug I wired when I built the house and the outside plug will only share electrify with a single overhead light in the laundry room.
So plan is to have two electrical sources. One is dedicated to the Shopsmith, router or planer (which will never run simultaneously) and the other is for shed lighting, the shop vac and any other small loads. The Shopsmith extension cord will be 10 ft or less and very substantial. The other extension cord will be appropriately sized for its length and load.
All of the great comments really got me thinking about my shed electrical needs so todays effort has me feeling more comfortable.
I also don't want to burn anything down.
Thanks, Bill
As was suggested by others my exterior outlets are gfi protected but share a circuit with other loads. In my specific case the outlet on the east side of the house shares with the bedroom lights and the west outlet shares with the living room lights.
The south exterior outlet that is right next to where the shed will be going is currently shared by a freezer in my laundry room. With a little shuffling that freezer will get plugged into the dedicated plug I wired when I built the house and the outside plug will only share electrify with a single overhead light in the laundry room.
So plan is to have two electrical sources. One is dedicated to the Shopsmith, router or planer (which will never run simultaneously) and the other is for shed lighting, the shop vac and any other small loads. The Shopsmith extension cord will be 10 ft or less and very substantial. The other extension cord will be appropriately sized for its length and load.
All of the great comments really got me thinking about my shed electrical needs so todays effort has me feeling more comfortable.
I also don't want to burn anything down.
Thanks, Bill
I have stumbled across your site and really like your "Shorty" design. And at this point in my thinking I may very well try to flatter you by copying itbillmayo wrote:I have been building what I call a "SHORTY". The way tubes are 34" and the bench tubes are 34 3/4". This allows me to keep the carriage and main table. I find that I can do any function without any problem for me. I had tried 30" and 32" way tubes before settling on the 34". This is 18" shorter than the normal Shopsmith length. The conical sanding disk works well with this length but not the shorter lengths. I want to keep several SHORTYs for my use, but have sold them quickly whenever a customer sees one in operation.
Bill Mayo http://www.billstoolz.com
. I have also been thinking about building a storage cabinet under the "Shorty" to house my small shop vac (space willing) which will be my dust collector for a while.Anyway, lots of thoughts while I wait for good weather to get a tractor in to do some grating.
Thanks