[Amps] AC wiring

[Tony King - W4ZT]

I think you hit the nail on the head Jason...

If you're going to buy wire anyhow... and run it to your shack... why 
skimp?  After all, I*R loss does nothing but warm the insides of your 
walls while the low R of larger wire FEEDS that dragon! The total 
difference in wire cost will be long forgotten when you're watching the 
gentle glow of bottles like the pictures we saw earlier.  I pulled 
#6-3+G to the shack from a 50 amp breaker in the main panel and placed a 
sub panel (added insulated neutral buss bar) there in the shack with two 
240 recepticles and two breakers. One breaker is 20 amps and the other 
is 40 amps. I used a conventional 3 wire drier outlet on the 20 amp 
circuit and the "new" standard 4 prong range outlet for the other. The 
small one will  handle any of the commercial amps and the other will 
handle... Puff.

Enjoy the magic... I'm still loving every minute of it after over 40 
years as a ham.

73, Tony W4ZT



Jason Buchanan wrote:
> Bill Coleman wrote:
> 
> 
>>>However, a 220 AC circuit wired with #14  wire should be more than  
>>>adequate
>>>to power an SB-220 (again, I am not suggesting that you do this).
>>>   
>>>
>>
>>Why not? #14 circuit is capable of 15 amps. At 220v, this is more  
>>than 3300 watts. The fuses on the primaries in the SB-220 are, what?  
>>10 amps each?
>> 
>>
> 
> 
> My unasked for opinion:
> 
> I have a 45' run of #10-3 to feed my Drake L4 220VAC - that's all it 
> feeds.  At most the plate voltage drops 250 VDC according to the meter 
> between resting idle and full power out at around 1100W, 2900VDC idle to 
> 2650VDC at full tilt (somewhere around 750mA plate current) with CW key 
> down- I tested this today.  I doubt i'd be that well off with #12 or #14 
> wire - even if I could get by with it, i'm enabled to bring something 
> bigger into the shack if it needs it.  I feel better about it and to me 
> that's ultimately the most important reason.  I only want to run that 
> wire once!  Dare to dream but i'd like to have one of Rich's Magic 
> Godzilla amplifiers some day - ain't gonna feed that with #14-3!.
> 
> 
> 73 Jason N1SU
> 
> 
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