Power how-to ideas needed.

[Cryss]

The reason he wants to know PROBABLY is because of voltage drop. Do you have any idea how many feet it is? This is going to determine if it has to be solar, or if you can just buy some direct bury cable and run 110 out to it from your service panel on your home.

Kind of hard to have power for a brood box at night time with no sun, unless you start buying batteries. all this gets expensive, so a single 110 run may be what you need, but distance is important.

A brood box isn't high on my list. An electric fence is and it needs to run at night. So I think you'r saying it won't protect at night? Would a battery system work? As I've said, a 110 can't be run. I'm at the limit for our house. I had wanted an electric stove in my basement for canning purposes but was told my house can't have more lines added. So chicken coop power is out via house power.

 

[Folly's place]

My coop is way larger than yours, and I have two 15 amp. circuits out there. One 15 amp. would be plenty for you. Is that too much extra?
Mary

 

[Sublight]

My coop is way larger than yours, and I have two 15 amp. circuits out there. One 15 amp. would be plenty for you. Is that too much extra?
Mary

Unless this person is running power tools it wont matter.
Most bulbs are low wattage. But not heat bulbs.
at 110 Volts, then 110 watts = 1 amp. (Not 100% perfect but a great ballpark estimate...)
Not sure how much a fence charger needs, but a heat lamp can suck some juice. 250 watts. That's a little over 2 amps.

 

[nminusyplusm]

Are you at the limit for amps or circuits at your house?

 

[Sublight]

A brood box isn't high on my list. An electric fence is and it needs to run at night. So I think you'r saying it won't protect at night? Would a battery system work? As I've said, a 110 can't be run. I'm at the limit for our house. I had wanted an electric stove in my basement for canning purposes but was told my house can't have more lines added. So chicken coop power is out via house power.

Not sure, but look at a solar powered fence charger. They MAY have batteries with them, im not sure. Worth a look.

 

[Sublight]

Are you at the limit for amps or circuits at your house?

Good question.

 

[HoopyFrood]

My coop is way larger than yours, and I have two 15 amp. circuits out there. One 15 amp. would be plenty for you. Is that too much extra?
Mary

Unfortunately, yes. Service panels are already full.

@Cryss Have you looked at electric netting over a fence? I'm pretty sure you can run it with solar and a battery:
https://www.premier1supplies.com/c/fencing/electric-netting

You can bury lines on the solar setup, if you think that's prudent.

But I have never run a setup like that, so others will have to advise.

 

[Cryss]

I don' need a heat lamp altho a heated waterer would be nice. I just want protection from black bear now. Waterer isn't as big an issue. I have no idea how much power, amps, volts, wire, etc I need. That's all Greek to me. Like I said, I need all the info I can get! My run is currently 10x10 but hopefully in about a month or so can be extended to 10x30. So when you say your coop is bigger than mine are you including run?
Oh! I just realised that extended size isn' reflecting the hopefully soon to be build bigger coop that will be attached to the end of the run rather than inside, so add maybe another8-10 feet?

 

[oregonkat]

I second the motion for solar fence chargers. We use one to protect our orchard from bears and it works great. Depending on what kind of predators you are dealing with, consider running at least 3 preferably 4 runs of electric wire around wherever your chickens spend the night. Talk to the folks at your local Grange or hardware store and get them to help you. Good luck.

 

[Cryss]

Are you at the limit for amps or circuits at your house?

YES