Planning my EU 220VAC (60Hz ops....
) distribution in my new US home.
This is the mains US panel (Mex-english
)
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The last two on the left side will be my EU mains starts.
In the image are both 20A but I will switch one of them in with a 35A.
so:
35A --> - for garage (a lot of Festool jazz under a GW94207 C16 plus vacuum cleaner 1200W and other power tool)
- Pantry EU kitchen devices (Ninja 1500W, meat slicer 220W and other little things)
- general 220V EE lab plugs (not the bench!)
20A --> 220VAC ONLY for my lab bench!
- 2,5mm2 cables
- connector blue 3P CEE socket plus plug.
- a dedicated Hager FI/LS-Schalter ADS916D B16 dedicated for my bench for now (maybe B20 in the future
)
- CT 15959 2P realis for emergency/panic button
I like the idea to keep the bench separated on a isolated branch.
I will use Hager VE112PN in the garage and the little baby VE103PN for the bench.
Three Hager FI/LS-Schalter ADS916D B16 and one GW94207 C16, tons of WAGO klemme, some nice Hager Brüstungskanal (with ETH cables in it
)
Some random pics about the equipment now...
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PS: it will be a YT video!
I have pretty much the same panel in my house, using the Siemens Q series and the pre-Siemens (ie. I.T.E.) BR series breakers.
My garage has a 60A feed with sub-panel in the garage, but that accommodates an air compressor, heater (garage is a separate building), extra refridgerators and freezers (harvest from the garden) and woodworking tools. By north american norms, 35A seems small.
I suggest you run a 3 conductor cable (L1, L2, N) for both of your circuits (the bare ground is not counted). You can get greater flexibility of having both 120 V ( L1-N or share the load with L2-N) and 240V (L1-L2) available.
For the following, I realize that my needs are quite different from yours.
For my (hopefully soon) future lab, I am thinking of running a 120 V circuit from a 15A DFCI (dual arc and 5mA ground fault protection) breaker for any DUT.
Along with that would be a 240V circuit from a 15A EFCI (equipment protection: arc fault but only 10mA ground fault) for lots of lab equipment (15A L1-N plus 15A L2-N = 30A total at 120V), and the possibility of having 240V available for future use.
Note, that a 240V DFCI breaker is not available, otherwise I would have chosen that.
Note2, in the current supply chain circumstances, a DFCI is much cheaper than a GFCI (5mA ground fault protection)... at least locally in the GWN.
From all that, you can choose what suits you best!
EDIT: forgot to mention it. A bunch of your breakers are labelled GFI (GFCI in the GWN), but those are just regular breakers. A GFCI breaker would have a white coloured test button. I assume that it means there are GFCI protected receptacles on the circuit. With a new-to-you place, it might be worth checking whether or not that is the case.