**Three Big New Electric Features in My Garage**

The three big new electric features of my garage should now be clear, with my flow chart with all the protection devices like safety fuses, ground fault circuit interrupters, and circuit breakers also done.

**Choosing the Right Protection Components**

Choosing the right protection components in combination with the required wires and their cross sections and ultimately wiring everything up correctly is definitely the reason why I would never recommend a non-professional to do such a job. If you mess something up, you can not only hurt yourself but there is also a possibility that things will not work or eventually even start a fire.

**Attaching Components to Walls or Ceilings**

It was time to start the actual electrical installation by doing what probably everyone can do and that is attaching all the components to the walls or ceilings which includes the lamps, switches, outlets, CEE Socket, the sub-distribution boxes, the wall ducts, and finally the emergency stops.

**Creating a Pipe System for Wires**

The next step was then to create a pipe system for the upcoming wires, and to keep the pipes in place we used such clips. So we went ahead and secured tons of those in front of not only the already existing components but also in front of the junction boxes which we added to the walls at around the same time.

**Cutting Pipes and Placing Them**

After all of that was done, we cut the pipes to their correct sizes and pushed them all into place which was quite satisfying to do because things finally came a bit together. Now at this point I threw all the different kinds of wires we got onto the table and we started guiding the correct kinds to their fitting electrical component.

**Wiring Everything Up**

The mains differences between the wires by the way is their cross section which basically allows more current to flow without heating things up, and the number of single conducts they consist of. For example a normal outlet is happy with 3 conductors but for an additional double switch you will need 5 because you are not allowed to switch either the N or PE wire thanks to German electrician rules.

**Connections Inside Junction Boxes**

And this wiring of course also included doing all the connections inside the junction boxes with the help of Wago terminals. And as soon as all of that was done which included finishing up the wall ducts, it was time for the last big task and that was installing and wiring up the sub-distribution box for which we invested a bit more time to make it all nice and tidy.

**Testing Everything**

So after 3 hours this wiring was also done, and sadly the only way to test everything at this point was using the 1 phase power I got from the construction site. But as you can see everything seems to work perfectly fine just the way I hoped it would and I am quite pleased with the end result.

**What Do You Think?**

Now I am excited to hear what you think about this installation and what you might have done differently. Let me know in the comments. Of course, I hope you learned a bit about electrical installation through this video, and if so consider supporting me through Patreon to keep the show going.

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WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enAs you can see it finally happened my two part concrete garage got delivered  which was certainly a spectacle for me.And in case you are completely confused  right now then let me tell you that I am currently in the process of getting  a house built and the garage is basically part of the package where I can later park my car in. But as you can easily see this garage does offer more space than a car  requires with measurements of 6x3m and 3x3m.And since I am more or less forced to install  mains power anyway, because the garage door requires it to function, I was thinking about  what other electrical features I should include.I mean stuff like outlets, switches or lights are  obviously mandatory, but I also wanted to include a bit more advanced, but still super useful stuff  which you also might want to consider when it comes to your next electrical installation. So sit back and enjoy the show of how I spent 5 days inside a super cold garage with my friend to  turn it into my ideal workshop.Let's get started! This video is sponsored by Keysights Lab YouTube channel which is actually not a  boring corporate channel. Instead the videos are all created by Keysight engineers to  bring you test gear tips as well as tons of edutainment about all kinds of electronics.  For example they offer oscilloscope tutorials, a lab tour with curious mark or an exploration  of 5G and as I have heard they are planning to do a big test gear giveaway soon over there.  So make sure to subscribe today to not miss it. Now before doing any electrical work I firstly needed some workbenches  in there which I wanted to position in two corners just like shown here in my planning. And since I have been using the workbenches in my lab for 5 years now and I am very happy with  their design, I decided to replicate them.And getting the wood material for the  bench itself as well as the supporting wood lathes and the stands was really easy to do. But what was hard to do was moving the benches around all by myself because  they each weigh around 70kg, so please don't ask how I did it in the hand. Before getting to that part though, I firstly had to cut wood laths to size  with my newly acquired mitter saw which made things so much easier. Then I drilled a bunch of 4mm mounting holes into them, painted them all with wood stain  and got my laser ready and in position to show a level line at a height of 84cm. At this height I held up the wood lathes in order to mark the position of their  mounting holes onto the wall, so that I can drill into it, hammer in tons of plastic  anchors and then use them with the help of screws to hold the wood laths into position. And as soon as this task was done, I moved on to the actual workbenches by simply cutting them to  size, painting them with the same wood stain as before, securing the metal plates for the  stands in two corners, attaching the stands and then finally lifting the workbenches  into place before permanently securing them to the wood laths with some more metal brackets. All in all pretty straightforward stuff, but it still took me around two and a  half days to pull it all off but I think in the end it was definitely worth it. And with that out of the way it was time to move on to the electrical installation  and to do that I firstly started out with a simple outline of my garage. In there I positioned the symbols for lamps, switches and outlets in a way that it would  make sense when it comes to everyday usage.For example a double switch right when I  enter the garage so that I can individually turn on or off the front or back lamp pairs. And speaking of lamps I chose the exact same ones I used in a previous video in which we  upgraded the garage of my electrician buddy, so definitely check that out if you haven't yet. All the other standard components are also pretty much the same as before  because why change something if it works perfectly fine. But when it comes to new stuff then we added 3 previously not shown awesome  features and let me begin right here with the way these outlets are mounted. Normally you would screw them into the wall and probably never move them around again. But I wanted flexibility and thus decided on these special  wall ducts or Brüstungskanal how their known in Germany. What is so special about them is that after mounting them to the wall you  can get yourself special outlets that you can secure inside them super fast. And if you are not happy with their position or want to add more you can always easily move them  around and best of all you only have to hook up the first one to a proper mains voltage wire. Afterwards you can use such premade connectors wires to daisy chain the rest together. And the last big plus point of those ducts is that there exist a few more  useful electrical connectors you can mount inside them including an empty component box meaning you  can mount pretty much everything in there.OK, so wall ducts are pretty awesome and  I would highly recommend them, but what I think is also awesome would be a CEE socket  here and two emergency stop switches one here and one next to the entrance. In case you don't CEE sockets look like this are basically normal outlets on  steroids because they can supply three phase mains power with 400V which means I can hook  up some really high power stuff later on.And I think emergency stop switches like  this one are pretty self explanatory meaning that if they get pushed,  I want them to immediately turn off the CEE Socket as well as the outlets on the workbench. The reasons for that are of course safety ones when working with bigger machines  and to accomplish that each stop switch comes with an integrated opener and closer which in  combination with this big 4 phase relay should be able to turn everything off. So with that in mind I created this flow diagram for the garage in which you can see the relay and  the two closer switches of the emergency stops.If either one gets pushed, the relay activates  and opens its contacts but if you are professional right now you might say that  this is not the correct way to do things.Because yes; even though this system does  work in normal use cases like seen here, it does not come with a cable break protection. By that I mean that if one wire to or from the closers break then the  relay will never activate and thus the emergency stops are pretty much useless. That is why you usually use a normally open relay and an opener to make such a system  because there the relay is always turned on and if either a cable break happens or the  opener gets pushed, the relay turns off.The only problem with that is that since  the relay will always be turned on during normal operation it would draw 26W of power  continuously and that is something I didn't want and thus instead used the half way safe version. With that being said, the three big new electric features of my garage should be  clear and my flow chart with all the protection devices like safety fuses, ground fault circuit  interrupters and circuit breakers was also done.And by the way choosing the right protection  components in combination with the required wires and their cross sections and ultimately  wiring everything up correctly is definitely the reason why I would never recommend a non  professional to do such a job because if you mess something up you can not only hurt yourself  but there is also a possibility that things not work or eventually even start a fire.And with that little disclaimer out of the way, it was time to start the actual  electrical installation by doing that what probably everyone can do and that is attaching  all the components to the walls or ceilings which includes the lamps, switches, outlets,  CEE Socket, the sub-distribution boxes, the wall ducts and finally the emergency stops. The next step was then to create a pipe system for  the upcoming wires and to keep the pipes in place we used such clips. So we went ahead and secured tons of those in front of not only the already existing components  but also in front of the junction boxes which we added to the walls at around the same time. After all of that was done we cut the pipes to their correct sizes and pushed them all  into place which was quite satisfying to do because things finally came a bit together. Now at this point I threw all the different kinds of wires we got onto the table and we  started guiding the correct kinds to their fitting electrical component and let me tell you for such  a task it is handy to have two persons at hand because wire can be a bit stubborn at times. The mains differences between the wires by the way is their cross section which basically allows more  current to flow without heating things up and the number of single conducts they consist of. For example a normal outlet is happy with 3 conductors but for an additional double  switch you will need 5 because you are not allowed to switch either the N or  PE wire thanks to German electrician rules.But anyway after all the wires were in place  which also included the wires going in and out of the wall ducts, it was finally time  to remove part of their insulation and hook them all up to their electric components. And this wiring of course also included doing all the connections inside the  junction boxes with the help of Wago terminals.And as soon as all of that was done which included  finishing up the wall ducts, it was time for the last big task and that was installing and wiring  up the sub-distribution box for which we invested a bit more time to make it all nice and tidy. So after 3 hours this wiring was also done and sadly the only way to test everything  at this point was using the 1 phase power I got from the construction site. But as you can see everything seems to work perfectly fine just the way I hoped it would  and I am quite pleased with the end result.So now I am excited to hear what you think  about this installation and what you might have done differently. Let me know in the comments. Of course I hope you learned a bit about electrical installation through  this video and if so consider supporting me through Patreon to keep the show going. As always don't forget to like, share, subscribe and hit the notification bell. Stay creative and I will see you next time.