Re: Power consumption

>There
>is a GOOD reason for 15 circuit breakers/fuses for house wiring, it is
>often 14 gauge wire, and will run a bit hot at 20 amps, also the
>connections for the wiring will be even hotter and this is the biggest
>risk.

When I wired an "equipment closet" in our house I ran a dedicated 20A
breaker with 10 gauge wire. Turns out that 10 gauge wire doesn't fit
"normal" wall receptacles, so I ended up buying some orange-colored
hospital-grade ones. Looks cool, and is a handy way to remember it's a 20A
service.

One thing I noticed in my garage when I was blowing the 15A "garage" breaker
with games was that the house was wired to that the "garage" service was
also a couple light sockets, garage door opener, laundry room fan and light,
etc. Probably ~3-4A of "parasitic" draw on the thing before I started
plugging in games. I added another 15A wall-jack and could run ~14 rasters
and vectors between the two 15A legs.

-Clay

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Received on Wed Oct 11 20:36:14 2000