Ignoramus27279 wrote:

...what is the best way to wire my shop...

First time, I went and scrounged up a bunch of receptacles and wired them all
into my RPC box, planning to run cords with plugs. This works fine, but all
those plugs and receptacles cost huge dough, and I found that most 3-phase
machines don't move very often anyway, since many of mine weigh half a ton or
more. So I just ran conduit around my shop, and ran a 3-phase bus (including
neutral) around everywhere, and terminated in 6 locations in a 30A 3-phase
disconnect box mounted on the wall. Now I just wire machines to the nearest
disconnect box, using flex conduit, and size the breakers in each disconnect
appropriately as best I can. I've wired two machines in at once which is easy to
do although probably not up to code. My shop is strictly a one-machine-at-a-time
shop so I don't worry about overloading the whole thing although there are about
a zillion breakers in line.

GWE