Hello, I've been experiencing some flicker from my light for a half second every few minutes, along with my stanly blower audibly slowing down for that fraction of a second. I figured it must be an issue with not enough power.
I flick my breakers one at a time to figure out where they go, and i find i have what might be the issue.
Both my bedrooms, and most of the living room are on 1 20A circuit. Attached to this circuit currently: 42" HDTV, 60G Fishtank with filter & 300W water heater, Computer w/ 350W Power Supply and 22" LCD Monitor(rated 1.5A), and now a 400W HPS Ballast and Stanley Blower Fan + 2 water pumps.
I have a couple more circuits. On the oposite side of the bedroom is a 20A circuit. This is shared between 5 wall locations, 1 in the master bathroom ,one on the wall in the master bedroom, and 3 in the kitchen. The kitchen also has a second 20A circuit that runs the refrigerator, and a cpl wall plugs(more convenient ones) so i should be able to keep that circuit fairly empty except for the hair dryer in the morning(girlfriend), and the 27" TV thats already plugged into it. She only uses the hair dryer for a couple minutes though, and its only a 400W ballast.
Is it all worth it? Am i going to create some sort of fire hazard plugging my 6' cord from the ballast into a 10' extension cord going across the room? Am i following the totally wrong line of thought and its not my power supply, but the actual ballast thats dieing?
All thoughts apreciated.
Hurricane
I flick my breakers one at a time to figure out where they go, and i find i have what might be the issue.
Both my bedrooms, and most of the living room are on 1 20A circuit. Attached to this circuit currently: 42" HDTV, 60G Fishtank with filter & 300W water heater, Computer w/ 350W Power Supply and 22" LCD Monitor(rated 1.5A), and now a 400W HPS Ballast and Stanley Blower Fan + 2 water pumps.
I have a couple more circuits. On the oposite side of the bedroom is a 20A circuit. This is shared between 5 wall locations, 1 in the master bathroom ,one on the wall in the master bedroom, and 3 in the kitchen. The kitchen also has a second 20A circuit that runs the refrigerator, and a cpl wall plugs(more convenient ones) so i should be able to keep that circuit fairly empty except for the hair dryer in the morning(girlfriend), and the 27" TV thats already plugged into it. She only uses the hair dryer for a couple minutes though, and its only a 400W ballast.
Is it all worth it? Am i going to create some sort of fire hazard plugging my 6' cord from the ballast into a 10' extension cord going across the room? Am i following the totally wrong line of thought and its not my power supply, but the actual ballast thats dieing?
All thoughts apreciated.
Hurricane
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