Hey Husker! I was just wondering the other day what happen to you and your building out in the "corn patch". I figured with the house build and all at once you had to put the shop on the back burner. Good to see an update.:thumbsup:
Yeah, I'm not going to lie, the shop is definitely not the #1 priority around here. That's not my choice, but the "finance committee" seems to think the shop is less important... Seems like there's always some honey-do project I have to check off before I get to work on the shop each weekend...
I do have the wiring partially done. I have all of the interior lights up, wired, and working. I put them on 2 switches. The first one has two 8' fluorescent strips and 2 regular light bulbs on it and covers the front half of the shop. The light bulb fixtures are on either side of the overhead door, so they aren't blocked by it when it's openned up. The second switch turns on four more 8' strips for the back half of the shop. With all 6 on (each strip takes four 4', T8 tubes at 32W each), they really light up the work area. I still need to hang and wire an outdoor floodlight to shine outside of the oH door, but that's lower priority.
I also managed to hang up all outlet boxes and have the North wall's outlets hooked up and live. I also have the wire pulled to the West (back) wall outlets, but not yet hooked up. Still need to run wire to the South wall bank of outlets and one separate outlet over in the SW corner where I'll set up a computer or more sensitive things. With the exception of the one single outlet for the computer, which is a 15 amp, all outlets are 20 amp outlets on 20 amp breakers. I'm prone to overkill, so all of the 20 amp outlet circuits are using 10 gauge wire even though 12 gauge would be acceptable...
All tallied up, I'll have 6 outlets on the North wall, 4 on the West, and another 5 on the South wall. Should be enough...
