Christmas lights

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I have a customer with a really big house and a large set up or Christmas lights

The current set up he has is kind of ridiculous inmo he has a panel out side I think 8ckts that each feed a timer then a quad receptacle.


I have to change the panel because it's not big enough and I'm trying to give him an easier set up. I was thinking a contactor that turns the whole panel on and off with just one timer.

Any suggestions? Products etc post some link if you have

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The simplest answer is obviously a single contactor in the feeder, inside the house, controlled by a programmable timer.

What ampacity are you looking for?
 
You can either use a timer to drive a large enough contactor to turn the whole panel on and off, or use multiple smaller contactors to control each circuit.
 
 
This is something we made up for a specialized portable application. Panelboard supplying a box full of deadfront GFIs (this was cheaper than GFI breakers and provided faster and easier trip visualization), then the GFIs each supplied a small contactor. You could do something similar with a small contactor for each circuit, or land a 120v 1p circuit on each of the contactors three poles. These were compact units from WEG somewhere around $15/ea if I remember correctly.
 

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Back before LEDs, I knew guys who would drop a 100A temporary servce in their yard for the Christmas lights...
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I did that at the big boss’s house many years ago, 8 pole latching contactor, 8 permanently installed circuits throughout the landscaping. Time clock controlling it all. Before the advent of LED lighting. Ran two circuits for just the Christmas tree at his other house.
 
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