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live woodshed
Wednesday, September 26 2007
I finished up the wiring of the new woodshed on both ends. It was prudent to complete the woodshed end before the house end, since once the wires were attached to the house and the breaker turned on, the woodshed's wires would be live. Attaching the wire to the house was made easy by an outdoor receptacle in a convenient location on the south deck near the southwest corner of the house (the corner closest to the woodshed).
In some respects our house is overengineered; every bedroom is on its own independent electrical circuit, and the lighting circuits are kept separate from the wall outlet circuits. But it was obvious that corners had been cut with this particular outdoor outlet. It was attached to the living room's lighting circuit, which had been wired with 14 gauge wire (I use thicker 12 and 10 gauge wire for my projects). There's a limit to the amount of current that can be carried by 14 gauge wire, but I'd run my electric chainsaw from this outlet in the past and never tripped the circuit breaker.
Later I also added a light to the center of the shed to help with fetching armloads of wood in the darkness, and I hooked this light up to an X10 module so that I could control it remotely from the house without the 19th Century bother of having somehow installed an electrical switch in the house and run a third electrical wire in that cable I'd threaded beneath the tree roots.
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