I have been thinking for a year about putting a heater in my garage to take the bite out of the winter. In Dec I saw a "good deal" on a 5600w heater. It was somewhat of an impulse buy...
For those of you that don't regularly think about watts that is ~23A @240v. After thinking about it I know why it was such a "good deal". Why would someone want to buy a 23A 240v heater?! Breaking 20A moves you into the 10ga wire world. And if you need a 30A circuit anyway why stop at 23A?!?
In hindsight I should have bought one that runs on a 20A circuit and saved some headache. It would have been very convenient for me seeing as I already have 3 20A 220v circuits/receptacles in my garage. Oh well, I decided to make it work .
Pulling 10ga romex is NOT fun. That stuff does not bend. I wimped out and just put the jack a couple feet above my breaker box:
On the positive side it works pretty darn good. But the garage is poorly insulated and I paid so little for the heater that I don't really trust it for unattended operation . So I won't use it all the time. Just an hour before I want to work in the garage or to help a finish dry.
All that is left is to make some sort of hanging bracket and insulate the garage doors (insulation kit is in the mail: http://www.lowes.com/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10151&productId=3025310&catalogId=10051).
Edit: I got it hung tonight using a simple 3.50$ bracket. Now all that is left is some insulation for the garage door.
Stay safe!
Salem
For those of you that don't regularly think about watts that is ~23A @240v. After thinking about it I know why it was such a "good deal". Why would someone want to buy a 23A 240v heater?! Breaking 20A moves you into the 10ga wire world. And if you need a 30A circuit anyway why stop at 23A?!?
In hindsight I should have bought one that runs on a 20A circuit and saved some headache. It would have been very convenient for me seeing as I already have 3 20A 220v circuits/receptacles in my garage. Oh well, I decided to make it work .
Pulling 10ga romex is NOT fun. That stuff does not bend. I wimped out and just put the jack a couple feet above my breaker box:
On the positive side it works pretty darn good. But the garage is poorly insulated and I paid so little for the heater that I don't really trust it for unattended operation . So I won't use it all the time. Just an hour before I want to work in the garage or to help a finish dry.
All that is left is to make some sort of hanging bracket and insulate the garage doors (insulation kit is in the mail: http://www.lowes.com/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10151&productId=3025310&catalogId=10051).
Edit: I got it hung tonight using a simple 3.50$ bracket. Now all that is left is some insulation for the garage door.
Stay safe!
Salem