I’d like power in my shed.
Running an extension cord to my shed from the inside of my house is quite a hassle… Plus I can use a bit more power than what a 20amp 120v line can give across 2 cords.
What I’d like to do is use the 240v line and run it to another breaker in the shed.
Will something along the lines of a transfer switch in the shed be an acceptable solution?
The shed will probably only be standing for another year at most… so a permanent solution is not ideal.
Probably less than that if we have a lot of snow this winter.
That connection is an inlet not an outlet and would be very dangerous if you rewired it to supply power. It is meant to hook up a generator so that you have power to a manual transfer switch.
You can run a rubber SOOW cord from the house to the shed as a temporary hook up and feed it with a manual disconnect switch so that you can disconnect the power from within the house to the shed for safety. I am not concerned with you burning anything down, more concerned with killing yourself or someone else!!
and a cord end or whatever you are terminating to in the shed.
I DO NOT RECOMMEND WIRING THIS WAY. THIS IS STILL DANGEROUS. THE CORRECT METHOD WOULD BE TO DIG A TRENCH AND BURY CONDUIT AT APPROVED DEPTHS. ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF THIS IS A RISK THAT YOU ARE TAKING UPON YOURSELF.
all 240V consists of is 2 120V hot legs 180 degrees out of phase with a ground. 240V is achieved by wiring leg to leg where 120V is achieved by wiring leg to neutral. There is no switching in the sense you are referring to. You would want to wire the 30A 240V to a sub panel in the garage and use single or two pole breakers from that point.
Again using rubber cord for this will fall well out of code and is quite dangerous actually but of the other ways to do it, it may be one of the safer. I have seen romex dragged through a yard to power a garage and it is in no way rated for outdoor, sunlight, water, freezing etc…
Pretty sure you can get UF rated romex for ground burial, but if it were mine, I’d just run PVC conduit. Subpanel sounds like the way to go. This shouldn’t be an expensive project.
Thanks guys.
If I’m going burial + subpanel route, I might as well just wire it up to the main.
Not really worried about cost, I’m just not interested in the work to do it
Especially since I know that whatever I do, I have to undo when the shed comes down.
I’d just stick with the extension cords if it’s getting torn down anyway. Unless you need 240 out there. Will you be rebuilding a new shed in the same spot?? How far is it from the house??
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Or how about an outside receptacle close to where that inlet box is?? Permanent, safe, and easy to run a cord to.
