Upgrading the electric service to my garage Part 1

I decided to upgrade the electric service to my garage. The original service was actually spliced into an existing circuit (a kitchen circuit no less) and was only 14 ga romex. I was constantly blowing the breaker and was concerned about the fire possibility. I've run part of the conduit for the new wiring (8/3 which will allow me to have several circuits in the garage, and actually could have a 220 circuit if needed). This step of the project will show what I had to do to bury the conduit and make the final connections. Sorry about the poor video quality on some of these vids. I am currently researching video editing software so I can splice some of the shorter clips together, if anyone has any suggestions for PC video editing software (cheap or freeware) PLEASE let me know. Thanks

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[windoes98se]

you should re purpose the existing circuit for your garaged and use it to power some lights in case you over lode your sub panel some how

[indymedic]

@windoes98se I see your point but there are a 2 main problems. First the existing was spliced into an already overloaded circuit and was causing problems with tripped breakers. Second, the existing was 14/2 romex that was directly buried 3 inches underground. What I ran to the garage was a 1.5 inch conduit and I have 75 feet of 8 ga that I plan on running through the conduit and setting up a sub panel in the garage, WAY more than I need, I can even have 220 if I need it. Thanks for the comment

[dnahoghunter]

Thats gonna be a project!!!