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Run several #12s and use a chase light controller

See if you can talk the guy into using a bunch of solar powered post lights. It'd likely be cheaper than the wiring...and a LOT easier to troubleshoot when one of the lights starts acting up.

I would like to thank everybody for their input.As always ..there is a extreme wealth of info on this site. I've been a electricain for 17 yrs now and some installations just make you stop and scratch your head on which would be the best way to tackle it. A multi circuit install w/ # 10's seems to be the winner. The customer loved the idea of flourescent lamps. Especially when I told them the cost of the install to use incadescents. Thanks again to everyone. ToHo

I just re-did the calculation, taking into account the fact that the load drops off as you get further from the house.

Using the multi-wire approach, you stay at just under 3% drop using 12ga conductors and 1A load per lamp.

This doesn't leave any room for expansion, and doesn't account for the receptacle.

Is there any way that the receptacle could be fed from a 240V-120V step down transformer?

-Jon

Jon, what are the odds that the recep would be used at night, when the lights are on?

Unless the guy is going to put a gate at the end.....

Dnk....

Been there, done that...
https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/Forum1/HTML/006480.html

BTW,

I ran a multi-wire ckt. with #6.
Used compact fluorescents and it worked well.



[This message has been edited by Redsy (edited 04-11-2006).]