by loomis2 (Posted Tue, 25 Jun 2013 08:25:24 GMT)
Maybe we didn't take quite as many precautions. We wired up the outlet, put it where we wanted it in the drywall (and also screwed it onto the side of a stud), ran the wire from the plug up into the bottom of the breaker box, connected the wire to the double 40amp breakers, then just plugged the breaker into the empty slots of the box and turned the breaker on. We didn't even turn off the main breaker to do it. In my case the plug is only one stud away from the breaker box in my garage. I imagine it gets trickier the farther away the breaker box is from where you want the charger to be, but that doesn't have as much to do with electrical work.
Maybe we didn't take quite as many precautions. We wired up the outlet, put it where we wanted it in the drywall (and also screwed it onto the side of a stud), ran the wire from the plug up into the bottom of the breaker box, connected the wire to the double 40amp breakers, then just plugged the breaker into the empty slots of the box and turned the breaker on. We didn't even turn off the main breaker to do it. In my case the plug is only one stud away from the breaker box in my garage. I imagine it gets trickier the farther away the breaker box is from where you want the charger to be, but that doesn't have as much to do with electrical work.