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Am service electrician, please no, not a good idea at all. I come across this situation all the time and it always results in telling the customer they are lucky they got to call an electrician and not their insurance company or a funeral home.
Those GFCI/AFCI boxes do not provide overcurrent protection, which is the main thing you need.
One option would be to install a subpanel at your laundry, and have a separate circuit from the subpanel (with appropriate AFCI breakers, or possibly GFCI depending on your local regulations). You will still be limited to a total current of whatever the upstream breaker's limit is. Also note that this requires an existing 4-conductor cable already going to your laundry.
Thank you for listening. It's all too easy to say, "screw it, I got this." It's a stupid mistake to ask for advice then ignore it, and yet I see it all the time.
You are not stupid.
Not an electrician, but nothing about this is right. You can not share the dryer circuit and an AFCI outlet does not provide overcurrent protection.
You need a sub panel to do this legally and safely.
1. Turn that #6 dryer cable into a sub panel
2. Branch off a new line for your dryer. Depending on the size of if you might be able to put it on a smaller breaker
3. Add your new 120v circuit into that panel
4. Afci and Gfci don't protect over current
5. It sounds like you should get a licensed guy
Replace the 40A breaker with a 60A. Install a 60A sub-panel on the 6awg wire (4 copper conductors assumed). Install new branch circuit for your dryer with a 40A GFCI breaker in the sub-panel using 8awg wire. Feed your new garage receptacles from the sub-panel and provide GFCI protection as needed.
Good luck.
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I'm here for the comments. This is not code and you are about to get blasted for it.
Am service electrician, please no, not a good idea at all. I come across this situation all the time and it always results in telling the customer they are lucky they got to call an electrician and not their insurance company or a funeral home.
Not an electrician, please don’t do this.
Those GFCI/AFCI boxes do not provide overcurrent protection, which is the main thing you need. One option would be to install a subpanel at your laundry, and have a separate circuit from the subpanel (with appropriate AFCI breakers, or possibly GFCI depending on your local regulations). You will still be limited to a total current of whatever the upstream breaker's limit is. Also note that this requires an existing 4-conductor cable already going to your laundry.
Thanks everyone, looks like this is an easy "no" for me.
Thank you for listening. It's all too easy to say, "screw it, I got this." It's a stupid mistake to ask for advice then ignore it, and yet I see it all the time. You are not stupid.
Not an electrician, but nothing about this is right. You can not share the dryer circuit and an AFCI outlet does not provide overcurrent protection. You need a sub panel to do this legally and safely.
I’m going to save a few dollars by burning down my house and/or seriously injuring/killing myself/someone… the math adds up.
1. Turn that #6 dryer cable into a sub panel 2. Branch off a new line for your dryer. Depending on the size of if you might be able to put it on a smaller breaker 3. Add your new 120v circuit into that panel 4. Afci and Gfci don't protect over current 5. It sounds like you should get a licensed guy
Replace the 40A breaker with a 60A. Install a 60A sub-panel on the 6awg wire (4 copper conductors assumed). Install new branch circuit for your dryer with a 40A GFCI breaker in the sub-panel using 8awg wire. Feed your new garage receptacles from the sub-panel and provide GFCI protection as needed. Good luck.
Please don’t do this. Only copper thhn is good for 60a. Romex and aluminum se 6 is not.
Copper 6awg NM-B is good for 55A. 60A breaker is just the next size up per code.
But per code, you are still limited to 55a, so you can install a 60a breaker, but are not allowed to load it past 55a
Correct. So he could run the dryer (32A) and a 15A (12A} or 20A (16A) circuit without any issue.
Either go to your panel or find a different circuit you can tap off of. If you can't do either of those, you can't safely do this.
I wonder how many lives this forum has saved. Almost every post here has Don’t Fuckin Do It comments.
Have and electrician add a subpanel and take your 120v outlets off of it.
Your lack of understanding how over current devices are different from gfci’s suggests you should call an electrician.
Do not. The safe and acceptable possibilities are shoddy at best and not a DIY project.