Topic: Knock on wood: How the hell is my electric still working ? (Read 439 times)

Ok, so I got to thinking about new mining hardware, electric consumption, breker tripping and all that shit... we've had our fair share of breaker trips due to three rooms bein wired weird. Thats worked around though just by watching what we run.

Anyway, I got to thinking about everything we currently have plugged in with each room and started smellin smoke coming from my ears. I just dont see how we dont trip more with what we use other than thinking each item has low amperage. But this got me to thinking, most people have what... 20amp breakers with about 12+ per panel dependin on the size of your house with usually 1 room to a breaker based on suspected room usage.

So... lets say someone has 4 of those chinese 20 port USB hubs on ebay, each with a 20V 4.5A power supply. That means they would need to have a new breaker put in for those four or spread them out accross different rooms right ? I know that might seem like a dumb question since I did kind of answer it myself stating that mosts houses use 20amp breakers per room but this watching electricity usage is all new to me. So laugh it up or whatever you need to since I know this probably sounds like the bs ramblings of a mad man that has no idea in hell wtf he's talking about but as it stands. Based on the answer I am waiting on about the amperage of the new equipment I plan on getting, I'm thinking I might need to have 2 new 20A breakers added just for the equipment I want to get with room to spare for future adds.

Ok, time to go drown myself in cold water to cool down the brain that has no idea what the hell just went on lol

Edit: Plus you got people who don't generally think about this stuff and get two new 1250w computers in the same room that don't seem to trip, but that could just be luck in hitting two different breakers.