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Yeah, I'm familiar with that policy. We thought there may be a chance of getting some refund, as per the electrician's phone call. Jonas didn't get any refund, after all. Oh well, a $50 lesson learned.... not a bad cost.
Sonny
Well, the electrician may still be a little off, if a load on the saw requires increasing the wiring and breaker size. His assessment, of amp draw and overall sufficiency of the system, was based on the non- loaded running of the saw.
Sonny
According to manufacturing spec, my 3HP Unisaw should run fine on
220/20A with 12g wire, and apparently most of them do.I ran it without issue on a 20A/10ga dedicated circuit for years until I moved it to another shop location for a couple of years and initially tried to run it (using the exact same c'bkr I brought with me) on a
20A/12ga dedicated circtuit (with about +/-5' more distance to the sub-panel).In the new location the saw would periodically trip the circuit breaker (and occasionally the thermal overload button on the motor would pop, which had never happened before).
I rewired that approximately 5' longer home run with 10ga wire and never had another problem in that shop. Length of home run in both cases was between 20 - 25' max.
Lots of variables to take into consideration here, but one would think that a small increase in distance, that was under 50' to start with, coupled with a smaller wire size, wouldn't make that much of a difference, but it obviously did with this particular saw.
IOW, and for whatever reason, not flirting too close to the maximum circuit capacity with equipment like a table saw can often save some needless frustration.
YMMV ...
The charge was $85 for the electrician's work. It took less than an hour and two guys showed up, whereas only one guy was spoken to and hired at the supply house. I suppose they worked as a team and the other guy wasn't in the supply house when we spoke.
A reasonable job was performed and this cost was well worth the peace of mind, also.
Sonny
That's a reasonable price. I don't know what part of the country. But here in NJ that would just cover a visit, with no work.
And that has been my experience as well.
Max
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