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Subpanel plan: 1. Put a 60amp breaker in my main panel. 2.

Run internal 6-3 w/gnd to a non-fused disconnect box on the outside of my main house. This run inside the main house is about 75 ft. 3. Run THWN (THHN if permissable), (R,B,W,gnd) in conduit at least 18" below ground (probably in 1" - 1.5 " conduit, for ease of pulling wires) from the disconnect box for the 30ft underground to my workshop and to the panel. I will put this disconnect in so that I can easily isolate the workshop power if necessary, and it allows me to not have to have a continuous run of wire from my main house panel to my workshop subpanel. I will put the THWN inside the workshop in conduit for the 10ft or so from the outside to the panel inside. 4. I will use a 100amp load center (Siemens), with 100 amp main breaker as my subpanel in the workshop. The main breaker in the subpanel will serve as a disconnect only, since the 60amp breaker in the main house panel will limit the current. This makes the "6 throw rule" moot. It has 12 breaker positions. I cannot find a 60amp load center or main lug panel with 12 positions, so my planned usage should be OK, and possibly even safer than using a main lug panel that backfeeds from a 60amp breaker to the other breakers, because with that arrangement, the load side of the 60amp breaker will be hot if I handle it. It does not appear to be any more money with the panel I am going to use. I will make notations inside the subpanel about what I have done. 5. My outlets will be 20amp, lights 15amp, and I will have a 220v outlet on a 30amp breaker. 6. I will drive a gnd rod outside the workshop and attach that to the same gnd bar in my subpanel that the gnd from the main house ties to. The white common from the main house will be isolated from the gnd wire. Have I left anything out? I'm not that worried about code, just safety and function. I don't let those inspector guys on my property.

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