spent my day off working on getting the garage wired up, I'm about 90% finished wiring it up, and hope to schedule an inspection appointment ASAP, which probably means Monday at the earliest. Additionally, when I bought the place, the garage had two closet like spaces inside, I took the walls (or what remained of them) down and mad the garage one large open space. Currently, I have four, 8 foot long tube fixtures, with LED bulbs, I might add a 5th to go over the area where the closets were, as it's a little darker than I would like there.
This sketch is a basic overview of what's going on. The gray lines represent the walls that I took down, the red boxes are the 115V outlets I've installed, each walls outlets will be it's own breaker. The green block is where I plan to install a larger air compressor, I may try and trade my 27 gallon husky to my dad and get my old kobalt back, it's much larger than he needs, and probably still smaller than I would prefer to have, but definitely a step in the right direction. The yellow area is where I plan to setup the CNC plasma cutter, I have not yet decided where I will put the surface grinder.
When I get a compressor, I plan to set it up something like this:
The discharge of the compressor will go to a heat exchanger to bring the air temperature back down to ambient at a minimum. I thought about getting a mini fridge and filling a container with antifreeze and a pump to bring the air temp well below ambient, this will help condense most of the moisture in the humid southern air. After the heat exchanger it will go to a smaller tank, with a drain, ideally, I'll plumb the line in about 1/2 way up the side of the tank, then the air will go from there, I was thinking about having the air flow through the top to another tank to allow more space for the water to come out of suspension, but I'm starting to second guess that idea as being unnecessary. after that, the plan is to send the air to the main tank, I may also add a desiccant drier to the line feeding the plasma cutter, moist air kills plasma cutter consumables with a quickness, so anything to reduce moisture will pay for itself.
I also need to measure for the wiring for the compressor and the plasma, the plasma will need a 60 amp breaker to run, and the compressor will need a 30-40 amp breaker, both of which should use larger wire than what lowes or home depot carries in stock.
Hopefully I can get power before new years, but we'll see.
"I am not what you so glibly call to be a civilized man. I have broken with society for reasons which I alone am able to appreciate. I am therefore not subject to it's stupid laws, and I ask you to never allude to them in my presence again."
