gregkeller
Well-Known Member
So I'm slowly working on the conversion to electric. I am going to build my full eherms panel here in the next few weeks after I get the last few odds and ends, then electrify my HLT, put a herms coil in it, and finally electrify the boil kettle. My goal is to build it up one piece at a time so it is useful, but not have to do any work twice, like rebuild a panel. I am ultimately wanting to move this indoors to my basement, but that is probably a full year-18 months away. Here is my question. My house had a hot tub outside that we got rid of after we moved in. The electrical is still in place, 50 amp spa panel and all, so all I've got to do it wire in an outlet from the spa panel. I'm assuming they make outdoor (weatherproof) outlets for this kind of power? My issue is that in my electrical box in the basement is a 60 amp breaker. I will plan this out as a 30 amp panel, is that a problem? It doesn't seem like it should be, but just wanted to make sure before I do something stupid. It would be easy enough to swap out the breaker for a 30 amp breaker in the box if I needed to, but less work is always better.