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Originally Posted by Buhdtyme  umm, you know how each outlet has two places to plug in cords too. If you plug in to many things into the one of the sockets, too many watts it will flip the breaker? each socket i thought could handle up to 750 watts of usage before you need to run another cord to your grow box |
That is incorrect. Each outlet doesn't have a specific wattage rating that it is neccesarily capable of. As I stated in my post, a vacuum cleaner uses about 1440 watts. lol. Most sweepers don't even have the ground built into the plug! An outlet (generally) can handle an ass load of power. What you ARE limited by is how much the breaker on that circuit is made for. For example, if you were to look in your breaker box and see 20 breakers, you will see on each breaker is a number. most will say 15 or 20 with one or two being larger, much larger. Now, on the grey metal panel, you will see that each one of those breakers has an individual number. For this example, we'll say they are numbered 1-20. Now. On the inside of the panel door you will see (or should see if a good electrician installed the panel) what circuit each breaker handles. So if you are growing in the closet of the master bedroom, it will likely be on the master beadroom breaker, so you look to see what number says "master bedroom". It says 17. cool. So look at what number 17 says. Let's say breaker 17 says it is 20 amps. cool. 120volts x 20 amps = 2400 watts. that is how much wattage the ENTIRE circuit can do. Including other lights in the room, computers, etc.
To sum up, a 20 amp breaker IS capable of putting 2400 watts into one plug, and the outlet itself won't limit you, but I WOULD NOT want to test that out! lol. I have seen outlets cook before. I personally wouldn't want to try to put more than say 1800 watss through one outlet, and I wouldn't even be comfortable with that. And I do mean per outlet, not plug. the number of plugs in one outlet make no difference because you still have to bottleneck that power into one line coming into the outlet itself from the power supply. Always be cautious.