Temp Electrical Service

Toolwh@#e

We've got a new job coming up where the temp panel is a little far away from the house. My electrician and I are trying to come up with a good way to feed temp power into the house from the temp panel, about 200 ft. away. We thought about running a few 10 or 8 gauge wires with gfci on the end but Im not crazy about that idea. I looked at spider boxes but there crazy expensive. I also want something farily portable. If it works good we might use it on other jobs. Thanks for any input.

mdshunk

Some of the bigger contractors have a breaker box permanently mounted on a hand truck, with receptacles mounted on that hand truck also. That panel is fed with a couple hundred feed of heavy-duty rubber cord with either a 30 amp or a 50 amp plug on the end. Plug it in at the temp pole. Same idea as a spider box, but you can build it for a couple hundred bucks. No UL listing, however.

Warren

Sparkys will probably beat me up on this, but many times we have been 200 feet away and we get a roll of 10 gauge 250 ft uf wire. Where it passes under the driveway we will pass it through 20 ft of pvc conduit. It will usually last for a couple of jobs and by then it gets too nicked up to use anymore. Cost for wire, conduit, rceptacle will run anywhere from $100-150. Small price to pay for good power closer to the site.

mdshunk

I won't beat you up on that. I fall into the "do whatever it takes" category. Just don't expect any mercy if someone ever gets hurt.

Toolwh@#e

yeah we thought of that, but I'm not a fan of that idea. We have done it before and in some cases it didn't last framing. One of my guys unknowingly picked the wire up with forklift pulling some tools of the house to there demise. Plus the safety guys don't like it. Bare in mind that we need to run all kinds of equipment off this. MD I like your idea. I like the hand truck and the idea of having breakers right there in case you trip something. If you had a picture of this setup to show my electrician that would be great. Cheers

31b

no generator on hand?

Toolwh@#e

yeah we have a couple but its nice not to have to listen to them all day. Plus then we'll be constantly bring them out for other trades not to metion gas and all that stuff. Temp service is much easier.

Inner10

Yeah I see alot of mobile pannel setups, work great, most expensive part is the long run of rugged wire.

ampman

get the new honda inverter gen.its so quite i can run my heat box with it and the heat box makes more noise

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Toolwh@#e

yeah but again its a matter of getting it there and back everyday for the other trades. And it seems that every trade wants an extra 500 to 800 bucks to use there own. So thats why we need temp power