Power Consumption?

[MountainBudz]

I have ran a 1000 watt HPS plus fan for 3 years now.

I was thinking of running an additional area with 600 watt HPS plus 440cfm speed controlled fan.

My question is, these wont be on running on the same circuit, but would this over charge my electrical system?

It will be ran in my partners mobile home, a mid 90's model.

We are not electricians by any means whatsoever but I am sure they will be running on separate circuits.

We tested this by flipping the breakers off and on, so far running the 1000 watt HPS with 440cfm fan and a seperate set of T5 veg lights, we have had no problems on that same circuit.

Thank you in advance for any help you can give me!

I would also like to know about how much more running a seperate 600 watter would bring up the electricity bill as well.

 

[stonerbuboner]

Amps= Watts/Volts. #14 AWG is good to 15 amps, #12 AWG=20 amps #10 is 30 amps. you'll be fine. Just add up the load on the circuit and compare to breaker used. Try to stay below 80% of rating.

 

[Catfish John]

I may have read this wrong, but if you are currently able to run a 1000w, 440 fan and t5 on one breaker, I think you should easily be able to do this on another breaker without tripping the main. Just try it out and if it is too much and trips the main breaker you will know to back off on something.

 

[queequeg152]

you will know when/if you trip your MCB(main circuit breaker).

its highly unlikely though... 2000watts is nothign in the grand scheme of household power consumption.

your water heater is probably on a 30amp 2 pole circuit, perhaps even a 40 amp.

cant speak for yourself, but my water heater is a two stage deal with 2 heating elements.... one at like 2300 watts, then a smaller one at like 1200 watts i think.

if a paltry 2000 watts trips your MCB, you have some issues that id reccomend you investigate.