bigfoot602
Jul 14, 2010, 04:16 PM
I have an older 220v 55 amp hot tub. I need to wire it from power box in the front of my house to the back yard. I'm finding that the wire for this is very expensive. I need about 75 feet of 6 gauge stranded copper wire. Since it's 220 I'm assuming I need four wires, black, white, red, and green. My question is this, my ac unit is about half the distance and runs on 220 also. Can I tap into the wire from the box for the ac unit, lowering my total distance of wire? The ac uses 24 amps and is 6 gauge to the power panel. I'm thinking about tapping into that line, running 40 feet to the backyard, installing a breaker and then installing the tub from there. Does this work? Thanks!