Comments on: Overloading House Sockets

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:18:07 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:24:10 +0000

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

By: rachi

rachi — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:58:19 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:26:09 +0000

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 🙂