So, I spent most of this weekend getting power there and putting in the lights over the kitchen.
Here's the load center that the solar installers put on the side of the house. They were nice enough to leave me enough space to add two single pole 15 amp breakers, one for lights and one for plugs.
I had to run about 30 feet of pipe underground from the load center to the patio cover, with four wires...black, red, white and green. Two hots a neutral and a ground. This is where it comes up from the ground, and up one of the posts to a box with a two plug GFCI outlet. I'll be getting rid of that dead honeysuckle pretty soon. It's a fucking menace.
From the GFCI the conduit goes up the post to a 4x8 cross beam and along that beam to the next post. It goes down the post to a box with two switches and around the corner to a 50 watt halogen floodlight. It was a challenge trying to figure out how to go up the post, then up the brace to the bottom of the cross beam and then transition up to the side of the cross beam. Had to put together an LB and an LL section to get a dual 90 degree turn. The only other choice would have had a couple feet of conduit hanging out in mid air, which the wife wasn't going for.
From there it goes around another corner to the beam opposite the first cross beam, where I added two 75 watt floods.
Finally, no more cooking by flashlight.
