Originally Posted by
Tom Dixon
Dan, I think you are confusing what I want to do. I'm not replacing the switch. I'm simply placing it in the Shop instead of the DC closet. I believe I came up with a viable solution today shopping at Home Depot. I already had a short piece of 3/4 PVC conduit so I purchased 2 3/4 female threaded adapters, 2 3/4 in. Strain Relief Cord Connectors, 2 PVC face plates, a 40 Amp breaker a L6-30R and L6-30P, all but the breaker pictured below with the 10AWG wire that will connect to the empty strain relief of the switch assembly in the second photo. The wire shown above the switch assembly will go through the wall and connect to the motor where I disconnected it before installing the motor/impeller housing on the cyclone. I'll drill an appropriately sized hole in each of the face plates, the conduit with adapters will go through a hole in the wall and the strain reliefs will go through the face plates to screw into the threaded adapters and then be attached to the walls with 4 screws.
Although the idea of an IR Repeater is a pretty good one it would mean I would not have ready access to the actual power switch in the shop if for some reason I needed to kill the power.