il19z8rn4li1
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Ok my friends. Hello and good day to you :-D
Let us all take a toke and get ready for a nice show :-D
What I need from you is a little assistance in the aspect of electrical work that needs to be done and worked out..
I believe I will be having TWO 120V 20amp Circuits available to me.
I have some experience with electrical work, my brother is an electrician.
SO... I know that for sure.. THREE 600 watt Digital ballasts are going to consume
one full Circuit.
600W x 3 = 1800 watt
at 120V
15amps.
now that circuit has 20amp breakers but I dont want to go over 15 on each if i dont have to.
BUT... The problem I am having is the timer for the lights. I cant find any timers that
are 20amps.
I know that if I use a 15amp timer with 1800 watts.. that sucker is going to get hot.
Now I know that it cant be good if its "HOT" to the touch... not just WARM.. but HOT.. not burning either, obviously thats REALLY bad lol.
I was going to run to the hardware store and grab a little junction box and throw 2 recipicles in it to have 4x 20amp outlets.
Connect all of them with some romex... and throw a 3 prone plug on the end.
thats how I was going to get all the ballasts on the same circuit.
So now the timer issue..
What do you guys think?
thanks friends
PS>>>
If anyone can help me out in my other thread as well this would be awesome, always looking for more and new information :-D
I love to read read read and then DO DO DO .. most the time to DO lol
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=225560
Thanks
Cheers
Let us all take a toke and get ready for a nice show :-D
What I need from you is a little assistance in the aspect of electrical work that needs to be done and worked out..
I believe I will be having TWO 120V 20amp Circuits available to me.
I have some experience with electrical work, my brother is an electrician.
SO... I know that for sure.. THREE 600 watt Digital ballasts are going to consume
one full Circuit.
600W x 3 = 1800 watt
at 120V
15amps.
now that circuit has 20amp breakers but I dont want to go over 15 on each if i dont have to.
BUT... The problem I am having is the timer for the lights. I cant find any timers that
are 20amps.
I know that if I use a 15amp timer with 1800 watts.. that sucker is going to get hot.
Now I know that it cant be good if its "HOT" to the touch... not just WARM.. but HOT.. not burning either, obviously thats REALLY bad lol.
I was going to run to the hardware store and grab a little junction box and throw 2 recipicles in it to have 4x 20amp outlets.
Connect all of them with some romex... and throw a 3 prone plug on the end.
thats how I was going to get all the ballasts on the same circuit.
So now the timer issue..
What do you guys think?
thanks friends
PS>>>
If anyone can help me out in my other thread as well this would be awesome, always looking for more and new information :-D
I love to read read read and then DO DO DO .. most the time to DO lol
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=225560
Thanks
Cheers