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How many watts? amps.. ahh
ok im trying to figure out the power consumption of my rig so i can have new lines pulled to the breaker for it all.
im looking at my chiller but it doesnt give a wattage. its a 1/4H custom sea life. it says on the top 120 volts 5 volts. does anyone have any idea how many watts that might pull? thanks |
Re: How many watts? amps.. ahh
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If so it will pull 600 watts Steve |
yep my bad amps..
600 watts damn! thats a lot hey? just out curiosity how did you figure that out is there a formula i can follow to figure other stuff out? so roughly adding up my list i have about 1200 watts.. is that a lot compaired to other systems? i think i better get two lines pulled for this hey :razz: |
Yeah, that pretty much needs a breaker all to itself, I'd think!
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Amps*volts=watts or amps=watts/volts
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Or 1 amp is 120 watts
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Steve |
Sorry, you're right, I was somehow thinking 10A breakers.
I suppose even so I would think you could probably put a few other things on the circuit but not too much. |
Wouldn't a start up surge be required for running the chiller?
That may exceed the breakers capacity if there is much more running on it at the time. Mitch |
That's what I was thinking. I don't remember what the rule of thumb I heard was, but that you basically shouldn't exceed 60% or 70% {or something .. :question: :question: :question: } of the rated capacity of the breaker (to account for start up surges)? So with the 10A breaker I was thinking of, no more than 6 amps of normal load (so maybe room enough for some powerheads as well, but not much more than that), or with Steve's 15A breaker, 9 amps of normal load.
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