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I need some advice on how to hook up a breaker box in my woodshop. The problem is that the breaker box in my house is full. I have another box, all the wire needed, a double 50 breaker along with four 20 amp breakers for the box for woodshop. How do I hook this up being my breaker box is full?

isherwood
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Depending on the panel you have and the layout of the circuits you might be able to combine some breakers into tandem breakers (single space breakers that control separate circuits). However a lot of panels will restrict how many of those you can add and where. There is the next complication that if you need AFCI or GFCI breakers those are not necessarily available in tandem format.

The most straight forward is to replace the main breaker panel with a bigger one with more spaces.

A slightly simpler solution would be to add a subpanel next to your existing main panel and move some existing circuits over. Then you can add the breaker for the additional subpanel as well as the one you are planning to install.

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