[GregWeld]

RIGHT!!

Tell you what --- I wired my shop myself... with the "over look" from my buddy who's an electrician. At the time - I would have had to wait 6 weeks to get him here - so he said -- "just do it yourself" and I'll stop on my way home to make sure you're doing it right...

Well --- I had to tear some of it out. He said that the BEGINNING of each outlet run - had to be started with a GFCI - because with a CONCRETE FLOOR - it could transport ground through moisture in the concrete... and I could be working with a tool and place my hand down on the floor and complete the circuit... SO THAT WAS GOOD ADVICE. A GFCI would immediately sense the short and trip... but a circuit breaker would just fry me first.... :>)

The other funny thing I did - when pulling the 220 circuits - I was pulling THREE wires - black / white / green... he started laughing at me - cause I was moaning about how much work it was to pull those three big wires through the conduit... I was pulling a GROUND and of course I didn't need to since the conduit is the ground. As long as I didn't go more than 6 feet with any "flex"... over 6 feet with flexible (like the jump between the wall and the lift) I didn't need a separate ground wire. DOH!

I was tempted to run GFCI circuit breakers - but he told me just to do the GFCI outlets at the beginning of any run - or if I ran a single outlet circuit to just use the GFCI type. That was easy.

The best part was he let me use his account at the big electrical supply house so I could get all the stuff I wanted - and I could get really heavy duty outlets etc. I didn't want to use the 99 cent versions from Home Depot...