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Hello all!
Here is my dilemna: I have a shed. It is about 150ft away from my garage. There is a 10-3 w/ground UF wire run underground. There is one going to shed, and one coming back. Previous owners had a horse in there. I would like to hook it up to power so I can simply have a 110v in the shed to run lights, maybe an outlet. Do I need to hook the wiring up to 220v?
Backstory:
When I decided to turn my garage into a machine shop, I rewired the garage. The previous wiring was circa 1950, so it was a mess; everything was connected to everything, some wiring was recent, some was the old cloth braided, starting to fray. Was a fire waiting to happen. I stripped EVERYTHING out. The 10/3 UF wire was tied into a rather nasty junction box that kinda sorta went back to the main breaker in the house. Not needing the shed for any particular use, I undid everything and left the dead wiring (to shed) coiled up at the wall.
Had the power company run new service right to the garage, put in a 100 amp 20 slot breaker box. Wired up the shop all nice and proper.
Now, I would like to get power to the shed. I've got chicks that I'm growing up and they could really use a heatlamp. Really don't want to run an extension cord out that far.
In the shed, one wire goes up to a large box mounted up high (I've not opened it up yet) and then it goes to the 110v wall outlets, interior lights etc. One wire comes out the box and back underground and back to garage. IIRC, it ended up going to a wall outlet so they could turn on exterior shed lights from the garage.
Is there anyway I can tap into my 110v and make this work?
Here is my dilemna: I have a shed. It is about 150ft away from my garage. There is a 10-3 w/ground UF wire run underground. There is one going to shed, and one coming back. Previous owners had a horse in there. I would like to hook it up to power so I can simply have a 110v in the shed to run lights, maybe an outlet. Do I need to hook the wiring up to 220v?
Backstory:
When I decided to turn my garage into a machine shop, I rewired the garage. The previous wiring was circa 1950, so it was a mess; everything was connected to everything, some wiring was recent, some was the old cloth braided, starting to fray. Was a fire waiting to happen. I stripped EVERYTHING out. The 10/3 UF wire was tied into a rather nasty junction box that kinda sorta went back to the main breaker in the house. Not needing the shed for any particular use, I undid everything and left the dead wiring (to shed) coiled up at the wall.
Had the power company run new service right to the garage, put in a 100 amp 20 slot breaker box. Wired up the shop all nice and proper.
Now, I would like to get power to the shed. I've got chicks that I'm growing up and they could really use a heatlamp. Really don't want to run an extension cord out that far.
In the shed, one wire goes up to a large box mounted up high (I've not opened it up yet) and then it goes to the 110v wall outlets, interior lights etc. One wire comes out the box and back underground and back to garage. IIRC, it ended up going to a wall outlet so they could turn on exterior shed lights from the garage.
Is there anyway I can tap into my 110v and make this work?
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