Christmas in Timber Town

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Power up!

A large light display needs plenty of safe power. Two new circuits totaling 40 amps were installed in the house panel box. Each of these circuits are protected by the breakers in the panel box as well as GFI (Ground Fault Interrupter) protected where the lights will plug into. A bit of effort was required to accomplish this as it was necessary to keep the existing circuits from overload. It wouldn't be Christmas with no power to make with the blinky flashy. Some rewiring will be necessary to bring more feeds from the garage panel box for next year's upgrades. Also some more extension cords will be needed to reach the SSRs further away from the GFIs.