Here's a pic of the living room and the wall where the new tank is going. It has a couple of standard two outlet plugs. What do I need to do to make sure there's enough power here and it's safe? Tank is 6 X 36 X 20. 250ish gallons.
add 2 ea dedicated circuits on separate legs. Typical houses has two leg from PGE.
Do you attic space? Above tank Or crawl space? Below tankI'm considering doing it myself to save money. What's a circuit?
Do you attic space? Above tank Or crawl space? Below tank
Might be difficult to do yourselfNope.
Might be difficult to do yourself
Don't.I'm considering doing it myself to save money. What's a circuit?
Depends how far you tank is from the main panel. Larger conductors are mainly for voltage drops over large distance.Two extra notes. I may not have halides, but a pair of 20 A circuits is happily feeding my 600 gallon system in TX.
You should consider oversizing the wiring. For our usage the payoff time for thicker copper due to lower resistance loss in the line is often short enough to consider. Some quick math will answer that question.
Depends how far you tank is from the main panel. Larger conductors are mainly for voltage drops over large distance.
Usually equipment operates 90-120 VAC. Usually a 20 amp circuit should have a load about max 15amps