So I don't want to waste your guys' time, so I'll keep it simple. Setting: North Richland Hills, residential home, shed is metal, backyard is fairly spacious, shed is 40 feet behind the house, the garden is behind the shed, no trees above the wire-to-be-run. Goal: My grandparents really want to have lights out in their victory garden behind their house, they also want to run electricity in the shed they had built a few years back. So from the house, to the shed, out to a pole that will have lights on it for their garden. Requirements: I want to keep it within code for NRH, however I have absolutely no clue where to find those codes. I have been searching for two days, nothing to show for it, which is why I turn to you guys. He wants to run 7 lights at least, 4 halogen spotlights and 3 fluorescent shop lights. Wattage not decided on yet. We will be running tools in the shed, namely a drill and a skill saw. Not at the same time. Thats it when it comes to amp draw, nothing else. My Issues: I have only ever done modest DC applications of electrical wiring. I know a lot about AC/DC principles and electrical engineering concepts, however I know absolutely nothing about electrical work within codes and 120v AC applications. I can, however, learn how to, and want to. OF NOTE: My grandpa is fairly stubborn and he wants to set up a pole half way between the shop and the house, and send an already bought home depot outdoors AC cable, 20A, UF/UV resistant cable across to the pole, then the shop. He doesn't want to run a steel support cable. The pole he bought would be 10 feet off the ground after we install it. This I am pretty certain would violate codes, since it has to be 12 feet off, especially since he would drive under it with his minivan. What I Have Heard: Underground > Overhead, however we have a tractor with a plow, and he is scared he might pull up on the wire accidentally if we did that... We need a breaker at the shop to kill power if need be... We need to run a new circuit for the shop itself, with a 20a circuit breaker... We need to use a certain type of cable and conduit for underground applications... IF we do it overhead, it must be run with a support cable, I have no clue how to tighten or install one of those. What I Can Do: Interior AC installation, e.g. outlets, I have done before. Hopefully this is enough information that one of the experts on these forums can point me in the right direction.

In doing a search, I found this thread. I was installing ceiling fans in a rental, house built in 50's, and found a red wire. I got two of the three installed but still trying to figure out third. On one, I wanted to replace rheostat with regular switch and found white and black twisted together as one leg going into rheostat and the other was red. Testing current on another ceiling box, I got current on red and white but no current using black. I read in an older forum post that red could be switched and black unswitched hot. Would like to understand what I'm working with. [COLOR=#800000] separated from...[/COLOR] [url]http://www.doityourself.com/forum/electrical-ac-dc/560397-simple-light-switch-has-black-white-red-wires.html[/url]