[sudo-discuss] Sudoroom electrical plans

[Jake]

I believe the electrical panel in the balcony only supplies one or two 
things (not including the robot, which is a temporary connection)

I think we should look into simply moving that breaker box down ten feet 
so it faces the server room, and be done with it.

On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Whitney Lawrence wrote:

> Howdy,Let me begin with thanking you for looking at the proposal. Your interpretation of the plans is
> correct.{ Main -> above stage panel -> balcony panel } is how the proposed plan is drawn. There is enough room
> in the balcony panel (which is the one located in the small room that shares a wall with the server loft of
> sudoroom) to accomplish phase 1 of the proposal. The proposal is based on instruction received to minimize
> cost. Ideally, there would be a main panel breaker that supplies a sub panel for all of sudo's needs (phase 1
> and phase 2). I can't accurately guess at a cost number for this type of installation. Figure a 100amp sub
> with hundreds of feet of 2awg plus breaker box plus breakers plus conduit plus hardware. All depending on if
> the main service can even handle the additional power demands (hiring an electrician to run the calcs).
> Ballpark $3-5k maybe- but its really a shot in the dark? 
> My experience with this type of thing is there is always a better way to do it, if you go the money. 
> 
> A middle road is to plan on having the future sudo-sub panel placed near the balcony panel. Build in an extra
> 5ft or so of wire for the future transition into the new sudo-sub panel. All that would be needed is to remove
> the breakers from the old box re-run wire from J-box 1 to the new sudo-sub, as well as re-routing the 240V
> lines from the above stage panel to the sudo-sub (and of course preform all the main -> suod-sub work). 
> 
> as far as existing vs proposed. only the sub panels mentioned above exist currently- I'll make a note to call
> out the existing stuff in the drawings. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Whit
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Cere Mona Davis <ceremona at gmail.com> wrote:
>       Hi everyone.  It's the first time I have looked at these plans and I have some questions and
>       thoughts.  Dave said he won't be able to respond to this email until a couple of days as he is out
>       in the boonies somewhere.  So I am writing in to expedite some issues that I think he will likely
>       bring up in the days ahead. 
> Whit, thanks for drawing up these plans!  For someone who is not intimately familiar with our electrical
> layout the plans might need a more clear description of existing electrical vs. proposed new electrical,
> however.  
> 
> In multiple conversations with Dave (and one on-site visit) he has mentioned repeatedly that we will
> want to shoot for putting in another sub panel for the sudoroom off of the main panel as the end-game;
> rather than daisy-chaining off of an existing panel (the balcony) as what seems to be proposed here.  
> If we can't immediately put in a sub panel into the room, due to cost, we should at-least be planning
> for conduit and wiring paths, etc that allows for a sudoroom sub-panel in the future.
> 
> Thoughts?
> -Cere
>   
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:23 AM, <hol at gaskill.com> wrote:
>
>       Thanks Yar!  Whit can you liaise w/ Dave RE how much of the work is going to be done under
>       the first permit?
>
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>
>       Cheers,
>
>       Hol
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> On 2014-09-04 23:16, yar wrote:
> 
> Hi all, Dave Pedroli is a certified electrician who's offered to
> review our plans to give them an okay. I'm copying him and the people
> who've been most involved with electrical work.
> 
> Dave, the latest plans are attached, and also available online[1].
> Could you please look them over and write us a few formal-sounding
> sentences that boil down to "hello I am a real electrician and I say
> these plans are solid"? This will help us make the landlord happy so
> he will let us do them. Thank you!!
> 
> [1] https://lists.sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-discuss/2014-August/007369.html
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> Best Regards,
> Cere Davis
> ceremona at gmail.com
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