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Overloading House Sockets
Kev has a question for readers:
“I’ve got far too many 12V street lights and track transformers running and they all plug into the same 15 amp circuit of my house wiring. They won’t all work at the same time. Without re-wiring the house or plugging into my neighbours house has anyone any suggestions?”
Readers can offer suggestions, but obviously Kev should seek the services of a qualified electrician if he thinks there is any risk to safety.
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if you keep tripping sockets in your house fuse box your going to need an electrician to put in a higher amperage fuse to handle the extra power your system is drawing, if you have a 15 you should see if you can get a 25 installed that should fix it, hope this helps, Ian Western Australia 🙂
Changing the lighting on your layout from incandescent to LED lighting will reduce the current required significantly, and will also mean you’ll probably never have to change or replace a light source.
I can hardly believe that you trip a 15 amp fuse at 115V, that means that you draw 143 Amps at the other side of your transformer at the 12V output.Maybe you have an other problem. maybe a short circuit on the 12V side of your circuits.
Sincerely
Constantin
Hope you found the problem. If you draw 15 Amps from the wall that’s 1725 Watts which is a lot! Maybe you have a faulty earth leakage breaker and not an overload current problem. Count how many lamps and work out their total wattage for power consumption then you will have some idea of the total consumption. It does seem like you need some professional advice.