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Originally Posted by Billy-O
Adding a sub panel and enabling 220/240 power is a good idea as others have suggested. If you run a sub panel in the shed, you might as well understand something about bonded ground and nuetral. For starters, check out this link: https://diy.stackexchange.com/questi...nd-and-neutral |
Bill, you know what..... that's a really good point. I think it also kind of backs up my thoughts on splitting the shed from the house and not sub feeding it off the house panel. For the distance, and the fact it's buried, I think it's probably safer to put it on its own. Even if service isn't increased, I would still pull power out of the meter loop and put it a main panel in the shed. Subfed panels are fine, but when you're talking another building 100' away..... I mean, I've subfed garages off a house panel, but they were detached and only a few feet away. If the shed for instance, got hit by lightning, sitting in the yard by itself, it would feed back to the house. If it's on it's own panel, with a seperate bonded ground, the house should be protected. *Should* be.