First off, don't worry, I plan to hire an electrician since I'm not comfort able messing with the main breaker box. I just want to know about feasibili ty and difficulty (or ease) of this proposition before making a choice on a new hot tub.
We recently removed our old dead hot tub from our deck. When we got it, we had an electrician install a dedicated 220V, 50 amp circuit. It has a bre aker in the breaker box, and another breaker and cut-off switch outside on the side of the house in a separate box - about 10' from the tub. This was done about 5 years ago, so the wiring is pretty new. The tub itself was o lder and used when we got it, but the price was right (free - plus the cost for moving and wiring). It served us well, but gave up the ghost last yea r. Now we're looking for a replacement and have been looking at smaller ho t tubs. Most of them seem to be of the 110V "Plug-n-play" variety, though they say they do require a 15amp dedicated circuit.
Since the wiring for the old tub is all already there (I think it's 6 gauge , 4 wire) - even though it would be total over-kill, would it be an easy th ing to convert this circuit to be a 110V, 15 amp circuit? Basically as sim ple as putting in new breakers of the appropriate amperage, and adding a re ceptacle to the end of the wire (previously it was wired directly into the tub)?
Thanks.
-J