Clueless On Electrics

[Hobbit]

Gday all. at the moment i have one of those 4 point boxes like you use on building sites with its own trip switch. That runs from a power lead back to the power outlet. I run my light up to 600w my hailea air pump, my pedestal, my dehumidifier my extraction fan (haha the 600 watt one Trex). That means im now piggy backed up in one of the 4 outlets. Firstly is what im doing safe, I want a couple more outlets. I was thinking to run another extension cable in and and have 2 x 6 outlet power packs mounted on a board. is this safe. Later i want to run a dyson cool/warm fan that can use up to 2000watt in as well as a dehumidifier. I dont own the house so i cant do anything drastic.

[British green]

It's safe as long as your not overloading the extension cable/four way socket and also not overloading the circuit the extension is plugged into.


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[Hobbit]

It's safe as long as your not overloading the extension cable/four way socket and also not overloading the circuit the extension is plugged into.


Sent from a green pleasant land

Cheers BG.

[British green]

Remember that most extension leads aren't rated past 13 amps and you can work out amps by using ohms law . Which is watts divided by volts


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[Hobbit]

So I should work out the amps of all my equipment and be sure that the leads are rated for the job?

[Trex]

Ohh remember Hobbit , on equipement start up such as pumps ,lights etc , it will make amps spike 30%

600w is approx 6amps

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[David Spaid]

Your cords are all fine. The question is if your amp demand is larger than breaker supplying your 4 point box, I'm not sure what a four point box is. You total amp demand is you total watts devided by you voltage. So you can run your 600w fan and 600v light on 120v supply and it will ask for 10 ampsjuat for those 2. If you run 240v than 5 amps. So you could run that one more thing like an air pump or something below 5 amps. A normal cut here in Canada is 15 amps. I am an electrician here in canada

[Trex]

Your cords are all fine. The question is if your amp demand is larger than breaker supplying your 4 point box, I'm not sure what a four point box is. You total amp demand is you total watts devided by you voltage. So you can 600w fan and 600v light on 120v supply will ask for 10 amps. So you could run that one more thing like an air pump or something below 5 amps. A normal cut here in Canada is 15 amps. I am an electrician here in canada

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[Hobbit]

Your cords are all fine. The question is if your amp demand is larger than breaker supplying your 4 point box, I'm not sure what a four point box is. You total amp demand is you total watts devided by you voltage. So you can run your 600w fan and 600v light on 120v supply and it will ask for 10 ampsjuat for those 2. If you run 240v than 5 amps. So you could run that one more thing like an air pump or something below 5 amps. A normal cut here in Canada is 15 amps. I am an electrician here in canada

Cheers mate , we run on 240 here. the box is just a box with 4 outlets.

[Hobbit]

Ohh remember Hobbit , on equipement start up such as pumps ,lights etc , it will make amps spike 30%

600w is approx 6amps

Nice one mate.

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