Small Corrections: The CEE socket can supply 11kW. I wanted to keep it simple and keep the sqrt out of there but that just messed everything up. And secondly the power required by the relay is not around 60W. Maybe something around 20W. I mixed up some values in the datasheet. Sorry.

As someone who lives in and is from the USA this makes our electrical system look and feel ancient. I really wish the us would adopt things such as the metric system and electrical system like those in Germany.

My Dad would have loved this. His mains connections boxes were works of art - everything super neat and ordered, and he'd leave extensive notes for the next electrician. He did wiring for new houses, rewiring for older houses (climbing through roofs was awful in the Australian heat, I don't know how he did it), 3 phase workshop and factory installations, and he worked for a long time on the huge pumps that drove the water supplies. I think he would appreciate the attention to detail here.

Just so you know, the power consumption of your contactor is actually 5.75W, the 62.5W figure you mentioned is the in-rush power (when it first energises) but it only draws that for a fraction of a second. So you'll only use 0.14kW per day if you left it permanently energised.

I love to see a European electrical installation on youtube for once. I think this shows many other people the way how it's done over in Europe as I don't think many know how different it is. Great video and great work on your electrical installation. It looks very clean, the way I like it :) Keep up the great video's man!

If you want to carry long heavy objects by yourself easier just mount a couple of wheels on a piece of plywood and line the other side with some non scratching material like leftover soft carpet. Put one side of your heavy objects on the plywood and carry the other side. You'd be surprised how much easier it is then :)

Ausgezeichnet!!! As an electrician in the States, it was great to see how things are done in Germany. When my brother and sister-in-law built their house in Germany, I was amazed with his electric panel: 400V 3-phase (much more power than our split-phase 240 V panel)! It even had a built-in timing relay to control the Schwibbogen!!!

You germans are in another level in electrical instalations... i´m a mexican civil engineer student and an electricity enthusiast and i hope to go to Germany in near future to learn about your magnificent engineering techniques. Excellent videos!!

I love how the distribution board ended up looking. The surface mounted plastic ducts for the conductors looks so nice. Nice touch of german attention to detail design.

What a time to be alive where you can just order a concrete box and have an instant garage. They even have house kits where they'll just crane the pieces into place and done. The fact that it has a pre-installed window in that concrete box is the cherry on top. For that matter, they do have some companies that are experimenting with 3D printing concrete houses, and even putting insulation in the walls. I know they had house kits in the 1800's, but for the longest time such things were niche, now it's so much easier and more accessible.

Only thing I would pick on is the half completed conduit. European rules are somewhat similar to ours, so yes I'm aware that it's not required, however having all of the corners just left out just looks dodgy. A few bits of corro (flexible corrugated conduit) would seal everything up, give a bit of additional mechanical protection at those corners and just make it look neat.

I used a shunt trip in a safety circuit like this. When the e stop is pressed the shunt trip mechanically trips the main switch / circuit breaker / rcd. There is no idle current. Requires a physical reset once the emergency situation is rectified. Works well

Nice project and congrats on the start of building your home. My suggestion would be, if time allowed, is labeling your wires at your substation panel. Not sure if you plan on doing that, but it would help for when you go back and add new construction or for trouble shooting.

Hello, congratulations on the excellent electrical installation, I was once an electrical installation inspector here in Portugal. Around here we use the same materials and the same brands. Here we do not mix sockets and lighting in the same circuit, not for safety reasons (as long as it is guaranteed) but for legal reasons. If there is any repair to be done (and I'm being nitpicky) it's just the location of the electrical panel, here in Portugal we do our best to always install it near the entrance to the building, to allow maneuvers in case of an accident inside, but as I said I'm being extremely picky. Once again congratulations on the excellent work!

To everyone asking why the cable wasnt completely enclosed in the conduit with bends and such: In germany electrical wiring needs to be double insulated. In this case the cable itself already is, so in theory he could have just nailed it directly to the walls with some clips, not needing the conduits at all. Had he run single wires, then he would have needed to enclose the wires in conduit the whole way. But running single wires in conduit, while allowed, is not usually done here.

You could add a pushbutton and green light to turn on your work bench. Then switch the relay operation around as it should be. This will then consume the additional power only when the circuit is active anyway. It will also function as safety in case of power outages to prevent equipment from starting unintentionally.

It’s cool to see how wiring in homes in Europe gets done compared to the USA. It seems like there’s a lot more customization available compared to panels in the USA. Seems closer to how we wire panels at my work building automation equipment.

Instead of using the relay for your emergency stop, you could use an RCD with an undervoltage release (Unterspannungsauslöser). Thats how they did it for the new buildung my school got. You get the cable break protection with only a stand-by power consumption of < 10 VA (depending on the model)

Such a satisfying job you did! Awesome! One small remark though as industrial engineer; it is not considered safe to wire emergency stops in parallel, you should wire them in series with NC contacts so that if one of them is punched you are 100% sure you have no more current. Anyhow, for personal stuff it won't give yopu any trouble.

For my workbench I installed a 6 foot long outlet strip above and below the workbench. That way I can connect as many tools as necessary where I need to. I probably only use one tool at a time, but it's very convenient to just leave them all plugged in. Under the workbench I have a shelf with power tools always plugged in, like a drill, Dremel, heat gun, glue gun, oscillating tool and more. When I need something, just pull it out and use it.

Nice setup! This is not for the same situation but when I set up and EMO circuit for an automation device I used a “safety relay” which requires an additional reset switch before power can be turned back on.

Absolutely beautiful! The only thing that I did differently in my workshop was to use cable tray instead of the plastic conduit. I love how it looks and it is also super flexible when adding new cables or switchboxes etc!

I wish we had a lot of this stuff in the US. Your buddy does such clean work, love it!

I’m an Industrial electrician and work with safety critical circuits every day. I really like that you implemented a two safety switches but there some way of improvement without sacrificing massive energy losses. Safety switches normally use two independent opening switches called channel one and two. Those chanels are interconnected through every switch used in this safety circuit. Those are then wired into a so called safety relay(sicherheitsrelais in deutsch hersteller da vor allem Pilz, Wieland und Siemens ) those Monitor constantly if the two channels are interrupted or shorted together. If one of them fails they shut of a relay output and have to be reset via another pushbutton or keyswitch. Paired with an 3 phase contactor (leistungsschütz) they provide a very secure system. Those industrial 24V contactors are way more energy efficient then the one in the video. As an example a Sirius 3RT2025 draws 5.9W even with an additional power supply and safety relay thats way below the 62w of the hager relay

Tip for the emergency stop. You can always wire in a small LED parallel to the main and the neutral on the steering side of the relay to show that there is voltage across the LED, even though the relay is not triggered.

I just love those phoenix connectors, they are so easy to work with

When I did my lab / home office, I used conduit to mount sockets as well. I did take the opportunity to wire a whole load of network sockets, and wire them back to a mini 19 inch rack. I also wired satellite feeds, a bit of good gauge cable for surround sound loudspeakers and the TV / computer displays, along with a home cinema amp to do the switching.

It's a very nice job! There is a level of satisfaction in planning the space to your liking and making it in real life. Looking forward to see more from your new space!

I love how things are done over there in Germany. Iv done a similar set up in my shipping container based shop but used metal conducting and boxes and covers to armor my wired and air lines from possible impact damage.

Ach als gelernter Elektroniker für Betriebstechnik geht mir da doch wirklich ein Herz auf ❤ Hab tatsächlich bei dem Schaltplan kurz gestutzt als du die Notausschaltung erklärt hast und mir gedacht „eigentlich sollten das Öffner Kontakte im Notaus sein“ aber da hast du recht, das sollte sicher genug sein😌 Wenn man nach dem Industriestandard geht, müsste man bei einer Notabschaltung über Relais bzw. Eines Schütz noch Maßnahmen gegen verkleben der Kontakte unternehmen aber das wäre wirklich Zuviel für eine kleine Garage mit Werkbank ^^ Weiter so!

For electronic bench wiring in the USA the approach is a little different, which in the USA is NEC (electric code) dependent but also the installation is considered specialized, meaning it falls more under industrial than residential. For electronic / electrical bench design, the goal is to have all of the wiring encased (surrounded) by metal. So from the drop to the breaker panel to the outlets you will see either EMT (electrical metallic tubing) or RMC (Rigid Metal Conduit which is threaded pipe). I like RMC but it is harder to cut and bend than EMT and you have to thread it. RMC threaded connections are sealed using copper based sealant to prevent water intrusion but also maintain a good electrical connection. The conduit is used as a sort of continuous shield and crush protection, but not to conduct ground fault current, meaning it does not replace a grounded conductor, however it is still ground referenced in case a hot wire comes in contact with the conduit. Which makes the electronic bench installation unique (also seen in music recording studios) because many times for motor controls the metal conduit is used as protective earth so you can omit the earth protective ground wire in the conduit. Also, traditionally the bench outlets, usually metal quad boxes (two GFCI duplex receptacles in the same metal box) are stagger as three 120 VAC, 20 Amp circuits along the bench. So, as you go around the bench the quad box circuits would be 1, 2, and 3, and then go back to 1. This is done so if one of the circuits overload you will not loose the whole bench. All are fed using circuit breakers. The wiring is stranded copper. Connections to the outlets are done using captive spade lugs to the receptacles and the screws torqued to spec. You can also buy GFCI outlet that already have a stranded pigtails attached so you can use a wire-nut, WAGO splices are rarely used for electronic benches. All of the bench test equipment is grounded. To test hot chassis power supplies and equipment you have to have an AC isolation transformer to float the mains and the safety ground as an option. Generally, for most manufacturers you will see two types of AC power supplies, one used for troubleshooting (field returns) and one used for testing (after it has been repaired and calibrated). Usually, there is a field return test bench and separate out-going equipment test bench, each is set up different for the different tasks. You must add ESD grounding connections to metal tables if used, ESD pads and ESD floor mats. I like to use a tin plated threaded copper grounding bus bars on isolated mounts with copper (or brass) nuts and washers. This ESD earth ground can be external to the metal conduit. You can run a separate grounding cable (6 AWG) in plastic conduit back to the earth grounding in the mains panel. Make sure this connection has no breaks or splices from the bus bar to the panel.

I love the way you did the garage. I like the idea of the stop buttons in case of an issue cropping up in the future.

7:56 - The 62.5 is only in the short period when the device closes. Holding it closed is only 7W according to the datasheet provided by Hager.

I like it! The best upgrade I did in my workshop was installing motion sensitive light switch. It works great, as soon as I walk in the shop the lights come on. They turn off after 5 minutes of no activity

Fantastic work on wiring, also glad to see you finally have a new garage and a lab

Proper planning, execution with attention to detail, and being tidy solves most wiring problems. I used to manage physical plant installations for large server/pc systems and anyone who came to work that did tasks in a shoddy fashion was gone before lunch. Saved time and resources in the contract arc.

i like how the first time i heard about wago terminals was on your channel, so they are pronounced "vah-go" in my head, and when h heard an american talking about "way-go" terminals, it took me a long time to realise what they were talking about. but "vah-go" is always going to be correct in my head

I'm from Ethiopia and I like it I love it it's beautiful

I'm going to be building up an electronics workshop in my new apartment in Barcelona and you gave me some great ideas, thanks! I love the flexible design of the electrical track system.

I just love the clean technical look of the wiring and that panel is mmmm so nice.

That is a very professional and clean setup, thumbs up to you and your electrician friend! It amazes me that in Italy we have modular sockets for power and controls everywhere for more than 30 years, the most famous modular systems are made by BTicino and Vimar, but in the rest of EU are not so common.

I think those ducts are a fantastic idea but I would have also tried to get a couple of normal outlets in the wall that are located under the tables for those plugs you never really unplug. I am definitely going to implement the power ducts in my dream lab set-up!

Sooo neat. Tells me that the electrician really cared about what he was doing. The details are so important. Thank you so much. I would like to learn more about how you do wiring in Germany. Salute from Ohio, USA.

I used to work on a Wirtgen WR2500s. I loved going into the electrical boxes, so pretty.

Hey, congrats on your new garage. I thought you were gonna spec it all out with IOT devices with Homeassistant integrations and solar panels but yeah i still like these generic electrical installation videos especially coming from you. Thank you for these educational contents you make, just as i am, i am sure someone will find this really interesting. Great Job!

Looks neat! Hope it will serve all your Electrical Needs for the upcoming videos

Great video! I am in the middle of studying to become an electritian and I found this video really interesting and there's definitely some things I will take with me from this one.

Big fan of that switch/recep box. Looked real good, real sturdy.

I am super exited for you to build your own home/setup. Really neat setup in this video. From this dutch guy that lives in USA, please label your E-stops with the 22mm circlular sticky label that says Emergency Stop (or in german) to top it all off. Congratulations!

First congrats for your new place, consider before it's too late to run CAT 6 cable next to power sockets and collect them all to one corner so later you can do a small lan network , or you can even install a small rack for your lab.

This looks absolutely beatiful. This is exactly the reason I want to get a job in networking. I'd love to build something like this for a living.

I’m building a tiny house and was looking for a good way to power my desk/workspace and I’m literally in love with the wall ducts. I’m using those everywhere I can now.

Beautiful work. Great to see the German approach to a shed. Wonderful stuff.

😍👍 *_You should have an exhaust pipe for the soldering ,and UPS for PC , and charger for your electric car_* that was awesome 👍

This was included in my Wishlist, to have my own workshop. Thanks for sharing this with us.

Nice installation. A thing I would suggest, considering you will work with electronic equipment and possibly faulty one would have been to install more than one RCD, at least one for the workbench sockets and one for lights/other sockets, so when you trip it you will not remain in the dark.

just for info: you are allowed to use the blue wire for other stuff than the neutral wire. Just the green/yellow one has to be the PE

nice and clean job, well done! Here in Czech republic we use 1,5mm2 up to 10A and 2,5mm2 for 16A circuit braker.

Love your projects. Hello from Texas! Thanks for all you have done over the years.

Very nice garage for DIY Projects, well done my Friend. Greetings from Bulgaria🙋‍♂️🙂🤝

Im from germany and learing Electrician. I am at 95% from my apprenticeship so in my last half Year (3/3,5). I have to say that the result is very clean and tidy. So Yes the Cables could a bit more straight so horizontally and vertically, then i think it would be 100% perfect. Nice Job!

Other than the safety relay being normally off instead of normally on, I like what you'ved done. A lot of thought has been put into what you want, and that wall channel is a great idea. I can see a 63Watt continuous draw would be unwanted. Even if it was only on while you worked at the bench, and turned off other times, it would still be something that needed considering. Thanks for the tour and showing us your thought process.

Hello sir. Congratulations on your new side. I love your channel I’m a big fan of your also always I like how germans do their electrical system. From Albania 🇦🇱

Am in awe, it's all so beautifully done.

It's good to see some sense with connecting electricity here. I'm used to those weird USA way of installing electrical installations, as I mostly watch English content on KZfaq. Luckily I'm Dutch (hello neighbour!) and we have such installations as the Germans too, almost the same rules too! I did an education in normal 230v electronic installations before I could pick my IT specialty. So my knowledge is a bit rusty, but I like to see good installations such as this. Having said that, this installtion looks very good!

Muss sagen ihr habt alles sauber gemacht und so wie es sein soll, was mich wundert ist das du nicht direkt ein Netzwerkkabel in die Garage gezogen hast bzw. Netzwerkdosen in den Brüstungskanal gebaut hast. Viel spaß in der neuen Werkstatt, baue mir demnächst auch eine auf und werde da mit allem komplett übertreiben haha

I agree with you, the distribution box has been very neatly wired.

Love the prefab garage and that super tight, clean panel!

Nice job. The only thing I can say from experience is that double the amount of outlets you think you are going to need and then you will not run out of them immediately :) Like, none at the ceiling? You should have some. And under the desks. And then more above the desks, but of course you can do that easily into the ducts.

The standarts are everything.

Cool vid. As an American who did remodels in college it's always very interesting to see European construction VS US.

In the USA, house power is two 120Vac phases with a "neutral", or one 240V source. This is called "Split-Phase". 240V is used for clothes-dryers, heat-pumps, oven etc...

nice video! A few things, first, I would have limited the use of spring loaded connectors, especially on the 400V, screw terminals may a bit more pain, because they need tightening ideally once a year, but I think they are more secure than spring loaded (if they come loose, you have to replace the whole device). Adding a few RJ45 sockets in the modular wall conduits wouldn't be too much I think, it's better than trying to catch the Wi-Fi from the house through the concrete walls, plus, that would limit radio emissions too and that would be nice if you try yourself on wireless projects. For the emergency stop button, swapping the relay for a security relay is a must, your standard relay doesn't give you the guarantee that it will break the circuit if he got damaged (a short or any type of over-current can easily weld the contacts together) a dedicated security relay will break the circuit permanently if the power module get damaged and the automatic reset of the emergency relay on the NO contacts is a bit risky I think, you have no means to know if the fault still there or a device is still powered, a manual reset next to the door would add the extra step to ensure everything is safe before closing the circuit. I think Schneider make safety relays that include a surveillance module (maybe Häger too, but I don't know their catalog enough), with emergency stop and reset loops and a protected power module that hook the mains right after the fuses and breaker, they are probably more expensive, but I think they worth it. Just out of curiosity, why the diazed fuses? I thought they were progressively phased out in Europe, is it a standard still very present in Germany? last time I saw this type of fuses, it was on a 30 year old machine, it was a pain to get new fuses and very expensive compared to similar 10x38 cartridges. That's all I could think of, I hope I didn't come as arrogant or aggressive, English isn't my first language and I was told that sometimes I may come as a bit obnoxious, I assure you it's not my intentions :)

400Vx16Axsqrt(3)= 11085 VA. A 16A CEE outlet can deliver 11kVA, not 6kVA.

Das sieht unglaublich Geil aus! Viel Spaß bei der Arbeit darin.

Looks great! Well done, always is a lot of preparing, but it looks superb!

@greatscottlab You could use a RCD from Doepke which you can extend with a emergency stop module. That would be way more fail safe and doesn't use a lot of additional power.

Loved this video. You guys do the best electrical wiring from what I saw. Would like more stuff like this coming

Beautiful installation! Nice job!

It's cool seeing all this gear in germany. We use the same stuff in Australia

Nice job. I can tell in Italy fuse boxes are extremely rare since the seventies and aren't used in new constructions... so it's kind weird to see them 😊

i really like the idea of an Estop in the workshop, though I would recommend going the extra mile and use two channels with separate relays and NC contacts. To reduce power consumption you could simply push the Estop when you leave the workshop :) If you don't want that, at least do a function check every time before you use your workshop. Also, having one Estop actuator is nice, but more would make sense so you can reach one from wherever you are

I am very happy to see this and hope we will see more videos ❤❤

I worked 3 years long as a Mechatroniker in Deutschland, and I fully agree 100% on your title. I didn't learn a lot of tech there, but vernünftige Verdrahtung, for sure I learned that.

I'm quite familiar with that kind of Garage-structure ... so how often did you accidentally drill too deep and make the plaster pop off the outside? Sometimes these walls are only like ~6cm thick!

As an European living in another EU country (Poland) it was interesting to watch mainly because one doesn't often see electrical installations done on the walls surface (as opposed to the much more common in-the-wall installation). Here in Poland I think the rules are pretty much the same as in Germany and we commonly use the same types of parts as shown(except wago connectors, those are less popular, we often use screw terminals with solid core wiring). Also the choices you made were interesting. I did a lot of electrical work on my own garage few years ago and more recently on a shed and a pv installation (of course I had it designed and certified by a qualified electrician). One of the things I did differently is I used square cross section snap-on plastic conduit instead of pipes for the cables in the buildings, also I used standard outlets. This conduit was easier to install then piping and it the idea was for it to be easier to modify in future, but having seen this video I now think pipes look better :-) I hope you do make another video on wiring of the house too.

this video came for the perfect time. I'm going to expand the electrical System of my workshop in the near future.

Looks really stunning Scott, have been a huge fan of the way Germany does electrical & technology items in general, especially being fascinated as a kid over the Grundig Trento HiFi gear which helped sparked my fascination in electronics & technology. Being from Australia, it's so interesting how slightly different electrical wiring is done in Germany (seems a lot like the Greece system with the wiring outside the wall as Aussies due to plaster board/drywall tend to run it inside the wall) & really love the modular plug setup. As long as you have an ELCB protecting the workbench for safety, the only other thing I'd recommend for your workshop is an isolation transformer & dim bulb in-line mains limiter in case you ever work on hot chassis equipment in future & your LoRA based power & garage monitor. As many of these items have already been working a treat at your other place, no need to re-invent the wheel & you should re-deploy all the things you had setup in your old garage at your new place. Congratulations on the new house & wishing you all the very best for Christmas, new year in 2023 & the festive season

Things I'd have done differently - I'd probably try to get rid of the legs for the workbench as far as possible. My experience is that wherever they are located I end up sitting with one of the things right where my leg is supposed to go. Office furtniture is expensive and often the table depth is to small. So I ended up buying the biggest kitchen table from a well known Northern European furniture company for my last office and aside of having legs in the wrong place it has served me well.

Congratulations on the house + garage build! - I have a question, why was the CEE-plug blurred in the intro?

The wiring is more then perfect! I like how neat and tidy the result is. I think that German wiring is in a high quality! Keep up and good luck with your house project! :-)

got some inspiration for the WIP house I am designing. thx

For endings and corners of cable pipes, use protective ribbed hoses (wire loom) that fit into the canal. This hides cables, and protects them in those places (important close to workbench).

Hot damn. You guys are gods compared to what Mexican electricians will do with our houses' wiring. I can't count how many times I went and found incredibly unsafe and out of spec wiring in my own home. To give you an example: Electricians in Mexico will refuse to install physical GND on a house if they can avoid it. I struggled to get a guy to install one ground circuit in my home and he only did it at the start of the main's circuit, that ground is not connected to the rest of the house.

nice video thanks for all helping video and contents,good luck

Love that distribution box. very satisfying

Instead of a safety relay, you can use an additional ground fault interrupter with your button shorting it to ground. (this will mimic the test button on the device) For double safety, you have to reset the interrupter after resetting the push button.

Very nice setup, since moving to Germany I've noticed space is at a premium, having that extra 3x3m work area on your garage is awesome, can't wait to see what you do with it, all the things that are bad for your health like lasers or 3D printing, or the noise they produce being annoying/loud, you can just chuck in the garage, a perfect maker space. Are we also going to see your house build?

Congratulations! It looks awesome, 99% same as mine :) the only difference is that along with the sockets in the Brüstungskanal I installed 6A breakers. Not only for extra protection, I can turn the sockets on/off using these breakers.

I'm not sure what your plans are for your CEE outlet but you might consider wiring the outlet to a relay that seals in with a start stop button. The buttons would allow you to de-energize and energize the outlet safely and if you have a power outage the relay would drop out and not allow the outlet to be re-energized when the power comes back on until the start button is pressed. We did this with the outlets on our motor test bench at work.