[kcdonahue]

Thanks Guys,

I remember having a lot of questions when I wired up my compressor a while back. When I looked in my breaker panel a majority of the wiring has both the neutral (white) and the bare ground connected together and it confused the hell out of me... To clarify there are two buss rails one on each side of the breakers but have both white wires and the bare grounds connected together.

To finish getting my compressor wired up, I ended up enlisting the help of my father in law since he is a union electrician and I used what he recommended (and the key here is probably 12/2 is what he had lying around). I never really expected to be running an oven in the garage at the time....

I will likely upgrade the wire here soon once I figure out what my compressor really draws (old craftsman peak 3hp when the planets align just right... ,I’ll have to dig around for the paperwork but I remember that it draws around 10 amps or so…)

My next question for the forum is… once I figure out what gauge wire I need and scrounge the cash to do it what do I do with the neutral and ground wires? I will call the father in law to check but do you think I should follow the wiring in the rest of the house where the neutral and the grounds are connected to the same buss strips on the panel?

Hope my ramblings make sense…


Thanks,

KC