Sending Power to a garage

scrane · #1 Sep 6, 2007, 06:30 PM

I have just built a detached garage. Now I need to get some power to it. I have a 125Amp main panel in the house. There are 24 spots. 2-spots have 20Amp's, 2-spots have 30Amp's, 1 spot (takes up two) is a GFI that feeds the two outside plugin's , and there are 16 15amp breakers. These leaves me with 2 spots. I am sure I can do some maneuvering to make room for 2 together. The question I ask is...now what? Can I add a two poll 60 amp breaker in these spots? I want to have 220 power in the garage to run my table saw and mig welder. Do I have to go to an inside sub panel and then to my garage panel? My electrical terminology is not great so if you can put this in a dumbed down version I would appreciate it.

Thanks,
Stephen



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