When I walk to the SE corner of the shop under construction, I can almost reach out and feel where the lathe should go. When I'm standing at the imaginary lathe, the imaginary mill is right behind me. However, I need to do rough wiring before final structural inspection before drywall, all of which will happen before actually acquiring any machine tools... Help me get the roughed-in wiring which will eagerly await its matching tools right so I don't regret all that drywall...
Is 30A 220V a good guess with reasonable overhead for anything likely to wind up in a home shop? A little searching suggests this with 12g wire as suitable for up to 5hp... Do I need a bunch of add'l capacity in case I wind up with a 3-phase tool and a phase converter?
Guessing I need 12/3 (as opposed to 12/2) wire so there's a neutral so 110V accessories can be fed from the tool?
It seems unlikely that I would run the lathe and mill at the same time... But is it foolish to put them on the same circuit for the savings of 60' of 12/3, a breaker, and some time drilling studs? (which reminds me I need to look up the requirements for whether I can have any of my misc romex runs sharing holes...)
And while this specific question is important, it's not like I'm going to turn down further shop wiring advice. We've talked about it lots of times here, but often some new detail will turn up (or be brought back to mind). And yes, I was just going over Tom's summary, which made it feel delightfully simpler, but I still hope to avoid shooting myself in the foot and I'm sure there are details not covered in that article (e.g. machine tool specifics to bring us full circle...)
Code books and code-summarizing simplification books for the lay person are excellent, but insight and advice will help me avoid applying perfectly good info incorrectly...