I suppose, if he connected them to 20 amp breakers. Kinda defeats the
purpose for running 40 amp wire though



"Wayne Whitney" wrote in message
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On 2007-03-19, RBM wrote:

Exactly. If you think you may need a larger feed for future, you could
pull
the number 8's as I describe, which will give you 40 amps, but you'd need
a
panel and the ground rods.

Couldn't he pull the #8's but still wire the garage as two circuits on
his existing main panel?

Cheers, Wayne