I will be running 240v to my garage to wire up an outlet. From the Panel in our basement to the plug location it is about 30M(~100ft) away.
I am hoping to have an outlet in my garage that can service a Welder (48 Primary Amps) and an Air Compressor (15A).
It would be a bonus if an RV could plug in to the same plug and if an Electric Vehicle could fast charge on it in the future.
What Gauge of Wire, Breaker & Plug type can I get that would cover at least the welder and Air Compressor?
Can I wire up more than one outlet?
Best Answer
One thing the other answers have not stated is that the US electrical code does not allow you to plug a 15 amp device into a 50 amp outlet. It isn't safe. If your compressor developed a fault where it was drawing 30 or 40 amps (not a dead short), the breaker would not trip but the cord on the compressor or the motor in the compressor could overheat and catch fire!
The proper way is to install a sub panel in your garage with separate breakers and outlets for the different amperage devices. Also, assuming you didn't want to run multiple devices at once, you could even size the feed wires (and the feeding breaker in the main panel) for the largest device only.
For example, you could have, in the subpanel, a 50 amp breaker for the welder, a 40 amp breaker for the EV charging station (that's enough unless you get a Tesla), a 30 amp breaker for the RV and a 15 amp breaker for the compressor, all fed from a 50 amp circuit. If you were to exceed 50 amps total at any time, you'd trip the feeding breaker. You could also start with just the 50 and the 15 and add the others as needed.
I'd actually suggest that you run a 100 amp circuit to the sub panel to give you some breathing room so if you end up with, for example, an 80 amp Tesla charger, you don't have to replace the feed wires.
Note: I am not an electrician and so I may have simplified some things. It might turn out that the code requires a larger feed. Also, some of your items may be required to have larger circuits. I'll leave those details to the pros.