Aaron,
Not sure how to take the deep pockets comment ;-) but this is my only hobby and soon it will, fingers crossed,? drive some income for us too.? We bought the home new and have been here for 21 years.? I am not sure I could afford it now!? Typical CA stuff.? My job has been good to me and my wife allowed for the mega splurge.??
Where I live in So Cal the utility of an ADU is one of the reasons that we did the new shop.? The shop is fully permitted and has a full bath.? I can easily make an ADU with a kitchenette out of it.? If my wife and I ever decide to move from CA, we can rent the main home and the ADU separate and make some great passive income.? Selling it as an ADU would require more hurdles from the city, but not insurmountable.
I feel you on the power situation.? In my 'old shop' I had a 200 amp main panel and had the 10hp PP connected with an 80 amp breaker.? We have gas in our home for heating, cooking and the dryer (not in the shop though - electric water heater).? I would never use the PP while charging a vehicle or cooking in the electric oven which were my largest loads. I never had a situation where I ran out of power.? I needed to have a 400 amp panel upgrade done to my home before I started the new shop.? The shop was going to have an electric tankless water heater that needed two 40 amp 240 volt circuits!? So my main panel has a 400 amp meter socket and two 200 amp main breakers, one of which is connected to the house breakers immediately below one of the 200 amp breakers.? The other 200 amp breaker supplies power to the shop.? I have 57 solar panels and only charge the Vehicles at night to avoid higher energy cost and balance the loads.
In the shop I have a standard 200 amp panel that has the 125 amp breaker for the Phase Perfect PTE015R (15hp version).? The 125 amp breaker feeds the PP with 1/0 copper and the output of the PP supplies a 3 phase Siemens panel via 4 gauge copper (max steady state output of the PTE015R is 52 amps).? The 3 phase panel has seven breakers for the seven machines and there are no shared circuits.?
I am almost finished with the electrical and powered up the Phase Perfect on Monday night.? Worked like a charm.? I have no machines in the shop yet, still need to get the Air lines roughed in and the ceiling drywalled.? It is moving along...
I hope to have a video out this weekend on some progress.
PK
PK