RAINWATER PUMP HOUSE FOR 28,000 GALLON WATER TANK - Electrical (Part 5)

[Music] good morning good morning guys we're back at it again with another video so last one that I posted would have been finishing off all the plumbing inside of the rain water pump house air today's video we're gonna go over the entire electrical system and what we're going to be doing inside of it so if you remember from the video that I posted doing the concrete slab you would remember that there is a piece of half-inch PVC conduit that is coming up just inside the wall right there so we're going to be tapping into that because that connects to our main electrical panel right there we're going to be pulling over a couple circuits we're going to be pulling over my double pole circuit for the pump so we're gonna be running it at 240 volts and we're also going to bring over a 220 amp circuits I'm gonna mount two outlets inside of the pump house and then I'm also going to mount two on the exterior of the building there so when we're building our main house which is just going to be right down there we're gonna have easy access to some 20 amp circuits and just be able to run some extension cords down there we're gonna mount a little light in there and I think the next thing that we got to do is just jump right into it ooh baby here we go so first thing that we're doing is trimming off that half-inch PVC conduit and then we're attaching a half-inch female adapter already with our half-inch EMT connector in it and getting that going so you'll I show a lot of conduit bending in this video I'm not gonna go into too much detail about how I actually do it just because there's so many videos on YouTube about it but we have to get an off set coming from that PVC conduit going to a four inch switch box slash junction box that's going to be going just to the left of the door there so now I can see that my offset is too much so I can go back and take out some of those offset bends and try to get it to where I want and again it wasn't exactly where I wanted so we got to go back and just slightly take out some of the bends there for certain offsets like this I just eyeball it and I just kind of just do it by feel you can get very precise with it and there are measurements and there are ways to do a very very precise offset but for some of these bends it's just easier just to get up there bend it and and fix it and just kind of do it like that now what I'm doing is since I'm happy with that offset is that I'm putting a box offset on the on the end of that piece of conduit they're going into our four inch square box so now that I'm happy with the offset in the end the box offset going into the four inch square box we can tighten down all of our set screws and you can just use a magnetic level on the side of the EMT conduit just to make sure that that Kondo it's gonna be going nice and plumb now next thing that we're gonna be doing here is running a piece of conduit going over to where the 240 volt switches for the pump so this is how we bend a ninety into some EMT conduit I already have the Box offset on the one end they're going into the four inch box and now what I'm doing is I'm putting a slight kick or a slight Bend to bring that conduit to so that it matches right up to that wall there so you'll kind of see how it goes together right here and now I can see mmm my offset or my kick is not enough so I can go back and just give it just a little bit more a little bit more of a kick there just to make sure that everything is gonna be running up and down very nice so you can see just a little bit more kick it brings that vertical piece of the conduit a little bit more plumb to the one right beside it they're happy with that we can get our straps in and it's really nice and handy when you're running conduit over a distance like this is just to use your laser level so that it's gonna be nice and nice and level and it's gonna look the best that it can so it's really important here that we're tightening down all of our set screws on the couplings on any of the connectors because we're gonna be carrying the ground through the conduit here going to the box so in certain circumstances it's mainly if you're running plugs for you know hospitals and certain types of special equipment that you need to run an isolated ground through a conduit but code basically says that you can run your ground through the conduit there so it just saves having to run one extra wire in there so we've got our next piece of conduit going to the four inch box here again tightening down all of our set screws it's super super important and we can get a couple of screws going into the box there and then we can get it that conduit strapped up there and then we are looking good to go for this piece of conduit so now I'm betting a piece of conduit that's gonna go up from that four inch box over the door so I'm just showing you that on the bender there are arrows so I know that I need a thirty inch stub out going from the top of the four inch box so that that conduit goes up to the door there I already bent an offset or a box offset on the end then that's in my left hand right now and then we're just gonna bend that ninety into it just to go over that door you can also if the offset or the bend isn't perfect you can actually just kind of fix it up just by bending it by hand there and once I'm happy with that that we can kind of we can get it mounted we can get it plumbed up and going around the door there and then we're gonna Bend one more piece here going around the corner and then to a light that we're gonna mount on the wall there again you can use your magnetic level there if you don't have a laser level just to get things nicely plumbed up it's already bent a ninety and a kick into this and now I'm just trimming it to where it needs to go this is a really important tip for bending conduit so you can see all the burrs on the inside of that conduit after you make cut so if you're using a power saw like this or if you're using a hacksaw you're gonna have those burrs on the inside once you run your pipe reamer through it or your conduit reamer and then it cleans that up and basically prevents when you're when you're actually pulling the wires through the conduit and the wires aren't gonna be digging into those burrs so now I'm just making my final box offset which is going to go into our light box just making any adjustments to it and it is looking real nice it's very satisfying to bend conduit nice have it look really good it gives a nice clean professional look and I wanted to so you notice in the back corner there that the conduit kicks down a bit and that's because I knew that I would have to run my three-quarter inch copper line right above it and with the with the light box and the size of the light box I wanted to bring that conduit down just a little bit so that I can sneak that copper line above it there so we've got everything mounted there and now we can mount our little our little light box so this is just like an anti vandal light that I just got on Amazon for I think like 20 bucks or something like that it just kind of looked cool and kind of went with the motif inside the inside the shed there so once we've got that mounted now I want to get basically an area here or I want to mount the box to the outside of the building so that I know where it's going to be popping up inside because I'm going to be tying the four-inch box on the inside to that light box that I just mounted so we're going directly right through basically where the purlins are going horizontally across the building so I can screw into that wood and that in that outdoor box is not gonna be going anywhere so I'm sticking my long bit going through there just so that I can pop out on the inside of the plywood there and just kind of see what's going on so we're going to be taking a four inch box and we're mounting a BX connector to the back of it and that's actually going to sit inside the wall there so everything's going to be really clean and really flush at the end of basically a BX connection like that where you cut the wire you need to have one of those red insulating kind of washer type things I forget what they're exactly called I should really know what it's called but once we get that screwed in and we get that tightened up then we can screw that outdoor box right to the to the building there and I like to say that I'm making these things Hannah proof my wife Hannah so that none of this stuff can get pulled off the wall because I give a for one of the spigots that I have on the tiny house because it's almost falling off the building there but anyways alright so there's many different ways of cutting or basically splicing up bx wire this is just kind of the method that i learned so we definitely want to trim and get rid of the casing that's going around the wires there and again we have to use one of those red insulating goddamnit i just cannot remember what they're called for the life of me right now anyways they got to go in there and then we get the wire coming from the outside box going through the back of the inside box here I had to go through one of the holes that wasn't dead center because I wanted to get the four inch box a little bit further to the left there so that I could run up basically a piece of conduit straight from the top of that box up to the light box there and as Jimmy deressa says for a lot of this stuff if it looks straight it definitely is straight so now that I've got the next piece of conduit already bent there's a two box offsets on either end we can just slide it up into place making sure that we tighten down all of our set screws because again we're carrying our ground wire going through all these metal boxes here you can't really you can't carry the ground going through a plastic box because it obviously is not going to conduct electricity but with the steel boxes there you can carry the ground going through it and carrying it through the conduit so one thing that is a little bit different to the boxes that you buy in the States here is that they don't have any ground screws so you actually have to buy ground screw separately I don't know it just seemed different because when I was in Canada I had never bought specifically ground screws are already in the box and the 4-inch boxes things are a little bit different in the States here so you got to buy some ground screws I tailed off one ground wire to two ground wires because we're gonna have two receptacles there so I want to get both of those obviously both of those receptacles grounded up so once we have the grounds done we can start working on the new on the on the neutral here and getting that tailed off so we're bringing a neutral down there's only one neutral for these two circuits so when you have basically two 20 amp circuits and they're both under a double pole breaker which is very critical for this - to basically follow code is that you can share the neutral between both of those circuits so instead of having a black a red and two whites you only need a black a red and one white so it just saves on obviously running extra wires and having those fill up your conduits there so there's little tricks like that electricians know in order to minimize obviously how much a project costs and how much wires we have to run and all that kind of jazz there so now that we've got the green-tailed off we've got the white tailed off - with two tails we've got two tails on both of them we can start wiring everything up and we've got our black and we've got our red already situated there so when you're wiring up receptacles when you're wiring up pretty well everything you should follow the same order of action you want to wire up the ground first and then the neutral and then any hot wires so that's just more of a really good habit to get into if you're to ever wire up anything alive which you which you don't need to do for the 99% of residential and commercial installations you don't you don't have to deal with live wires but you definitely want to make sure that you're following that order of action it's just a good habit to be in now that we've got to basically the ground wire connected to the bottom of the receptacle we've got the neutral tails wired up to each of the receptacles we can now attach our two hot wires so each receptacle is going to be its own 20 amp dedicated circuit and then the xor red and the extra black that we're attaching to these receptacles is sending power to the outdoor receptacles so that's kind of how this is working and how this is all kind of happening inside of this this little box here it's kind of hard to explain exact exactly how everything goes but some important details here is that we are using 20 amp receptacle so there's a difference between 15 amp receptacle and 20 amp receptacles when you're using one of those when you're using one of those Ray's cover plates you got to take out the 632 screws which are at the top and the bottom of the other receptacles there or else that doesn't work and then there's also these little ears on the top and the bottom of the receptacle is what you have to bend and get those off as well so now we can attach our receptacles right to that raised flush cover plate or to that raised cover plate and then screw it right back into the end of the box there so now I can start working on the 240 volt switch for the pump there so when you're basically taking off the insulation or the plastic coating around a power wire like this so this is 12 3 power wire you got to be very careful that you don't dig your knife into the actual wire itself and you're just lightly scouring the outside and then pulling on the part that you want to remove and then it does typically separate pretty easily there so again with this set up here we're gonna have to put in a ground tail to be able to connect to that power cord there so this is a 240 volt switch you've got your leads for the basically the hot side they go on one side and then the switch side goes on the other side and the screws are color-coded so you want both your feed your feet in going I believe to the black side there I think that's what I'm doing but it actually will stay right on the switch which side is the feed and which side is the switch side of the switch so as some of these switches you don't need to curl the ends of the wires you can just put them straight in there and there's just like a little pressure plate in there that basically secures the wire to the switch but the nice thing about wiring up things that are 240 is that you can't really mess it up you got two hots coming in and it doesn't matter which side hooks up to it to the other side or anything like that you can't really mess it up so that's one benefit of wiring up things with two at 240 volts is that you've just got two hots and it doesn't matter you know which one you hook up because they're both supplying 120 volts once we got that wired up we can put the the cover plate back on and get her all done now on the side of the pump troll here there are some half-inch knockouts there so we're just using some 90 degree angle connectors going into the side of the pump troll controller so on my last video I basically had to override the settings on the pressure switch which is on the pump when I ordered the pump I totally forgot that there was a pressure switch on it but I much would rather have everything run from the from the pump troll here which is what I'm wiring up it's definitely gonna be much more robust and it's gonna be a better quality product over time for switching the pump on and off based on the pressure here so again lightly scoring around the outside of the wire there and then pulling off the insulated jacket on it and then we can get our wire going into the end of the pump troll and then we can get our angle connector here all finished off and now that we've got the wire in there again first thing that we're going to wire up to the pump troll is going to be the ground and just because there's a little screw back there we've got to curl it around there so at the end of the green wire you can tighten up that stranded wire and then put a curl on the end of it inside the pump troll it'll basically tell you a schematic how you should be wiring it up because there is a feed side and a load side so you just want to make sure that you have your feed side on the correct side there now some guys might be like well you're using a white to carry a hot I guess you know I don't know if this is against code I think if to make it code compliant what I would have to do on that white wire there is just add some tape to it but since I'm the only one dealing with this I know that they're both hots and it's both a 240 volt circuit so now we can run basically a the load wire which is going to be going directly to the pump so we can put it into the other side of the pump troll there and get it wired up to the to the pump troll there so again we want to get our ground wired up there first and then we can wire up the two basically the two hot wires that's going to be going directly to the pump so we're coming from the pump troll you want to loop our two wires together and just using some zip ties to keep the the cables nice and nice and clean and nice and slick and following some straight lines here and now on the shallow well pump we've got our feed wire coming in there so you can just see it dangling down there and on the inside of the pump it'll basically tell you exactly how you should be wiring it on the back of the pump is a 120 240 volt switch so those wayne shallow pumps they come in wired for a hundred and twenty volts but there's a little switch on the back it's a little white thing that you pull out and then switch it over to 40 you definitely want to be doing that because if you don't you'll probably just you'll be sending 240 volts to a well pump that's why it for 120 and it'll probably just start smoking or it'll just probably blow up so that 12:3 power cable that the guys cut for me if they actually cut me the 14-3 stuff it would have fit inside that cable gland so I just had to replace it with another one of those a little connectors so we can just get the wire going nice and clean and straight into the side of the well pump there again there's going to be a on wire in there that we have to hook up our ground to and then we've just got our black and our white there which are both 120 volt leads again you should probably tape the end of that white wire alright guys so just a quick overview of what we did there we've got our main half inch conduit coming into this four inch box so we've got a light switch which controls that guy right there and then we've got a conduit coming around with two 20 amp circuits so we've got a couple of 20 amp receptacles right here which are not necessarily going to be in use 100% but I might put garden equipment in here so if we ever need to charge batteries or whatever then we can do that right there and then coming outside to the outdoor box we've got a couple of 20 amp GFCIs so that'll be great especially because we're going to be doing construction on the new house right there so we've got a power source we've got a water source right here that is going to be easy access for what's going on right there and also coming out of that box we've got two hots for a 240 zerk 240 circuit so we've got a 240 switch right there that we can just switch on and off so the guys at the hardware store accidentally cut me 12 3 instead of 14 3 but you can always go up and wire that's not a big deal come up with our little angle connectors on either side there you could also probably use BX but I wasn't sure if the BX would have any kind of issues with touching the the bare copper there so we come down and then it's wired right up right into the pump there alright guys that is a wrap for the electrical portion of this I hope you guys learned something especially with bending conduit in this video I think it's really worthwhile to learn how to bend conduit it's not that tricky there's lots of really good informational videos on YouTube about how to bend conduit the proper way how to make sure that your stub ups and all your bends are going to be as precise as you as you need them and one really good thing about running conduit is that you can always add in more wires later or you can rewire things a little bit easier if you if you need to so that's one reason why especially in a mechanical like this it's really nice to be able to run conduit I'm just because then you're not limited by either the size of BX or something like that anyways guys thanks so much for watching we'll catch you on the next video talk to you soon [Music] [Applause]

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Keywords: derek howlett, handeeman, diy, how to, maker, rainwater, rainwater harvesting, pump house, arizona, rainwater system, rainwater harvesting system, rainwater collection, off grid, water tank, aquamate water tanks, desert

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Length: 20min 38sec (1238 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 11 2019