When ya gonna be home next week? (turkey day week) It might work...
You can move the switches, or change to 3 way and run a wire from the
current to the additional switches. If the picture I can't see has
wires connected to the double breaker, then it is a 220 circuit.
120V should have a black, a white and a green. Most residential
220/240 has the same. the white is used in place of the red. Good
color coding would be black, red, green for a 220/240v single phase,
and it may have a white also to keep the common.
You can put more than one outlet on a breaker, but for 240 V major
users, the best practices is to have one outlet per breaker. Same
for dishwasher, air cond, etc.
If you need more spaces, you can get piggyback breakers or half width
breakers to get more 120V circuits in the same box, freeing up spaces
for 240V doubles.
Your old place would not have been too much out of the way. If I
remember right, you are close to Ponca City now. SE of Ponca? I'd
have to figure out the route to get there.
Get in the car and drive down, you can haul a load of parts back
with you. My shop is kind of retarded. So the walk in door is at 1
end, the breaker box is at the other and this is where they also
located the light switches, right next to the breaker box. The 220
or 240 outlet whatever you call, which is 50 amp btw is also right
next to the breaker box. This is a good spot to say plug in a welder
or something but the huge air compressor is right in the way there.
I want to locate it in a corner on the other side of the shop but
need an outlet there. The empty box with what appears to be about
10-12 gauge wires is close to the walk in door, but not really in
the corner where I want to put the compressor. That other empty box
with the lighter gauge wires is in the perfect spot but I think it's
110 type wires. I also really need to have a light switch put in by
the door, I guess in addition to or relocate the ones by the breaker
box. In the box there is at least 1 maybe 2 empty spots for
breakers. Does each outlet have to have its own breaker or can 2 use
the same breaker?
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On Nov 21, 2015, at 12:45 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
I have 1 220 outlet in my shop but it's not really in a good
location. I need a couple more installed for future lifts and air
compressor. I have a couple of blank boxes in the shop with no
outlets in them. One has heavy wires and is in a better location
but still need one or 2 more. Does this appear to be wired for 220
and all I need to do is install the outlet? How do I wire in
additional outlets? Maybe I would be better having an pro do it.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>
> Pay my way there and I'll do it for ya. Trade ya labor fer paatz
>
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