PEP BB electricity.straw.outletcircuit - Add an outlet circuit and circuit breaker

I’m installed 5 sockets in my basement. They’re installed in a new stud wall put up by me to help insulate the basement.


Here’s the existing breaker box with a vacant spot for my new circuit


Room one before I installed the studs


Room two after I installed the studs


Wiring for first socket




Wiring for last socket


Room one sockets installed


Room two sockets installed


Cable secured into breaker box


Breaker installed


Cable is live





Green lights all the way

I put in a new outlet circuit into my partner's yurt.  I added a 20a breaker to the subpanel up at my work, and ran 8awg cable in conduit down.  I used 12-2 romex inside the yurt, there are 4 outlets, the first one being a GFCI to protect the rest.

BEHOLD!

Hello PEP-folks,
I have a 40ft conex with a small solar system I put in a while ago, and I wanted a power tool outlet (it was a ways away from the house). I am using the past tense because this was done back on our AZ property, with the outlet need driven by my desire to build out shelving in the 40ft and use it as our moving van to the PNW where we live now, so I needed a 20A outlet to run the compressor and other tools, as well as provide some interior lighting in the conex.

I'm aware that the BB asks for single 20A dedicated outlet with things like fridges in mind, but I do submit that a power-tools outlet is a reasonable single-point circuit, hoping you will agree.

The conex has a small HVAC unit on it, too, thus the 30A dual pole breaker next to the single-pole 20A for this outlet. Since it's a remote power system, and subject only to intermittent use, I judged the conex box to be a pretty adequate ground - there are a lot of electrons in 4 tons of steel (more, I suspect, than in most UFER systems...). At any rate, the outlet I put in is a GFCI, since it is near the door, and if operated open and in weather, could indeed be water-exposed.

The photos briefly walk through the installation, demonstration of function, and the system it draws from, which (of course) I put in without carefully documenting and thus can't submit for the power wall badge... sigh. But the outlet has been a huge help, both in AZ and up here in the PNW, as when I built the goat pen next to the conex, since it's such a good windbreak.

Happy homesteading,
Mark