William462
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Oct 5, 2006
- Location
- Delaware
I'm running a branch circuit out to my workshop, from the main breaker box in my house.
It's about a 30 foot run, all indoors, and will run from my main breaker box to a load center box in my garage. I could buy some 6 awg wiring, or perhaps I could use some of the 10 awg romex I already have lots of, but run two conductors in parallel to give me the 40 amp capacity I'm planning on. It will be a 120/240 volt circuit, single phase. As long as the conductors are properly color coded ( i.e. painted) at the ends, is there anything drastically wrong with using twin 10 gauge conductors instead of a single # 6 wire for each leg ? I'd use three 10-2 (with ground) lengths of romex. ( Be nice now, you "code" guys ! I'm just asking.)
It's about a 30 foot run, all indoors, and will run from my main breaker box to a load center box in my garage. I could buy some 6 awg wiring, or perhaps I could use some of the 10 awg romex I already have lots of, but run two conductors in parallel to give me the 40 amp capacity I'm planning on. It will be a 120/240 volt circuit, single phase. As long as the conductors are properly color coded ( i.e. painted) at the ends, is there anything drastically wrong with using twin 10 gauge conductors instead of a single # 6 wire for each leg ? I'd use three 10-2 (with ground) lengths of romex. ( Be nice now, you "code" guys ! I'm just asking.)