"rpseguin" wrote in message
...
Shhh but in a pinch I've used a "strand"--twisted together from 3
individual
pieces of #12 or 14 copper.


:-)
I get the message. I won't cheap out. My credit card is feeling the
strain though.

Still looking around for some #2 or bigger. I've got a lead on some
#4 wire.

My plan, after all the advice is to put a single phase 100A subpanel
in the garage.
That subpanel will have a breaker for the RPC.


Main
Panel
|
| #2 wire, 70+ feet run
|
1ph
Sub-panel
|
| 60A 2 pole breaker, #2 wire, 10 foot max run
|
RPC
|
| #2 wire, 10 foot max run
|
3ph
Panel
(3ph/pole breakers for machines)


If you don't need to go underground buy aluminum mud cable, this will easily
be the cheapest solution. Aluminum got a bad name because they tried to use
it in small sizes in residential, with the wrong devices, along with labor
that was clueless about proper techniques. We made a lot of money fixing
jobs done wrong in aluminum, and I have never seen a properly done aluminum
job fail.

Gary H. Lucas