How much can a normal electrical outlet take?
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Anonymous
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a good rule of thumb is no more then 1500W on a circuit - i have 2 seperate circuits for my 125 and try to split the load between them. many can't do that cause often times a room such as a living room or bedroom (are normally thought of as low load rooms - and are wired as such) will have all the outlets on the same circuit. most nanos though require far less then that - say less then 300W when the heater is running. its when you start getting into bigger tanks that you have issues with overloads, and then a dedicated circuit should be your first step in planning.
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based on the circuit breaker any out let can handle upto totalof max indicated such as 15 amp breaker will power that line a total of 15amp max load on power surge....................most curcuits have about 6 individual outlets on it unless it it a dedicated circuit( such as washer dryer or some other major appliance ) generally speaking as far as atank goes you can put a power strip down & it should handle the entire load unless your running major appliances on same circuit ( check your breaker panel to see which breaker controls the outlet you plan to use
hope this helps :maitre
based on the circuit breaker any out let can handle upto totalof max indicated such as 15 amp breaker will power that line a total of 15amp max load on power surge....................most curcuits have about 6 individual outlets on it unless it it a dedicated circuit( such as washer dryer or some other major appliance ) generally speaking as far as atank goes you can put a power strip down & it should handle the entire load unless your running major appliances on same circuit ( check your breaker panel to see which breaker controls the outlet you plan to use
hope this helps :maitre
TimSchmidt
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Here is a way to see what is on one circuit. Turn off the circuit breaker to your living room and see which outlets don't work anymore. A good way to test this is to just put a lamp or other device you can quickly note as being on in each outlet in a room and then turn them all on, flip breaker, and come back and see which outlets are off. All those outlets off are on the same circuit and anything plugged into them must be added together to see how many amps are going through the circuit at one time.... Hope that makes sense. But knowing your home like that can help in the future. (keeps you from plugging several thousand dollars worth of equipment all together so it can fry....)islandcreation said:Quick question. So you say I have to account for everything since contractors do short cuts.... What happens if I have my tanks in a living room :?: Each tank has its own wall so, each tank has two outlets for itself. Then I have a entertainment center on another wall... I'm taking it that I have to add all that up? Just want to make sure :mrgreen: Stupid question but what does 15 amps equal to as in watts? I'm not too familiar with electrical, sorryThanks for all the knowledge :mrgreen:
also almost every electrical device I know of list amps as well as wattage. You just have to look a little harder I believe. (I'm not so hot at remembering that formula, it's not hard, I just can't commit it to memory for some reason...)
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