Okay so at the moment I have 3 computers, XBox, Stereo, TV, and Printer on my room outlets. I think my rooms on two breakers (20 amp is the norm each right?) Will adding a forth PC black out my room?
most likely not, you can run a lot of stuff on a circuit, but I don't think I'd plug in the vacuum with all that and use it, or the hairdryer, or anything else with high starting load. I have 5 to 6 on a circuit (High end all of them) and I've never blacked myself out, except when i also ran the vacuum on the same circuit. you should be fine, but that's not a promise. try to balance the load on the two circuits (to find them, turn everything off, and flip one breaker at a time, plug in to find which are live on each circuit)
7 computers, 4 TFTs, a CRT, 3 TVs, a laser printer, 3 stereos plus whatever else my dad has in his office, all running off the upstairs ring circuit. Plus the occassional hairdryer, hoover, fan heater... Never tripped due to overloading (earth leakage is a different matter ) _C
20A is almost 5kW of power allowed on each ring - it'll take a lot of equipment to reach that. If your room has 2 rings (unlikely, but not impossible), that's 10kW total...
I have a lot of electrical stuff in my room (got 5 extension leads, all full :S) but consider this, do you use every single piece of electrical on full power all at the same time? Most likely no so you should be ok. You could just give it a try, if it doesn't black out you should be ok since the fuse box should cut off on overload.
If each computer draws ~350W at full load, that's roughly 3 amps per machine, so 12A if you're running 4 at the same time. That gives you 8 amps just for a television (not more than 100W), stereo (much less), Xbox (not much), and printer (depends what type, but not really a huge amount). You'll be fine - it's not as if you can run the devices at maximum load simultaneously...
I have the following running at home: 27" tv, xbox, vcr, 500w speaker system, p4 3.3, p4 3.06, amd athlon mp 2000+ dual proc system, amd athlon xp 2000+, dual pentium 3 850, pentium 3 600, pentium 233, pentium 166, 3 switches, 2 wifi routers, cisco pix, 19" crt, 2x 17" LCDs. hrmm, I think that is about it. I'll be adding a 166mhz laptop, and a p3 500 in the next week or so also, might be adding a cisco access router to play/relearn with all of this is off of two backup batteries on separete outlets. (750Va {max350W}, and 1200Va {max 600W}) I think you will be MORE than fine The circuit breaker for the two outlets is 15A.
Try it and find out. Currently I've got: Xbox, Tv, 2 Pc's and a laptop, phone charger, desk lamp, room light, 3 sets of speakers and a fish tank (Pump, filter and light) and its all good. Bearing in mind there are 4 (Ones a 6 say) way extentions on each outlet, and all are being used.
Got all my stuff (2x CRTs, 2x PCs, 1x LCD, VCR, DVDP, stereo) on a single 20A breaker with no problems. It's not 5kw in the US, closer to 2kw-2.5kw depending on your line voltage. Keep in mind, most UK stuff draws half the amperage of our stuff. Their 450w PSU is drawing about 2A, ours draw 4A.
we once manged to blow the service fuse(ie the one that u cant change as it owned by teh grip company) by running two computer,shower,2 tv, washing machine and i think a hair dryer as well. but any how. each device inc your psu shud have a max amp rateing just add them all up if its higher than that ciruit then youll blow. but wat the hell do want i with 4 pcs.
It's a bit different for us in the UK remember, we have 32A ring mains and as a result of a higher supply voltage, our current draw is lower. For a US circuit of 20A, that's 2400W - just see how much everything draws and make sure it's below that.
OK, this is my room, and it's been known for me to have all this on... -Xbox -Telly -Laptop -Scorpion (see sig) -Salamander (again, see sig) -17" CRT (too skint for flatscreen) -Lamp -Phone charger for nokia phones -Phone charger for sony ericsson w500i Never had any problems
Just don't host a 15 person LAN with the power from one room in an old house, with DIY wiring. It just doesn't work.
Well, that's still a long way off what he has. Phone chargers use barley anything. Laptops don't use much, not do pentium IIs.
Is this still going on? It's really no problem at all.. I'm not going to summerise all that is connected in this room (computer/tv/home cinema/room). But it uses (without a doubt) alot more then u are using, and it's all on one ring. You're only concern is having quality splitters for everything.. if you are going to connect all of that, with one tiny thin cable.. then you are going to have problems.
