Electric circuits per room
I would like to get a 10000 btu AC in a room, but worry about overloading the circuit. The circuit box has a few breakers, maybe as many as the rooms in the apartment. Is there an easy way to find how many circuits are per room? Thanks.
I would like to get a 10000 btu AC in a room, but worry about overloading the circuit.
The circuit box has a few breakers, maybe as many as the rooms in the apartment.
Is there an easy way to find how many circuits are per room? Thanks.
too small an a/c is highly inefficient. check consumer reports.
Ahhh but do you need SEVERAL ACs?
That much be a huge massive room. Is it a giant loft? If it’s just a standard size brownstone living room you don’t need such a powerful AC.
We bought 5000 BTU AC’s for each of our large rooms in our brownstone and they cool the rooms really well. In fact I have to turn mine off a few times a day because I get too cold.
I wish people would think about the common good a bit more when revving up their AC’s. In Summer the overload on the electrical system for the city by all these way too strong AC’s by people making their rooms 50 degrees can cause a blackout. Again.
If it’s a new 10k a/c you will be drawing 900w. High enough but nothing dangerous (regardless of Y). Key thing is what *else* is connected to the same circuit as the a/c; if nothing, you’re safe. Otherwise, just keep the other loads on the circuit low.
Thanks all again for all the helpful tips.
If your a/c is on an isolated 20 amp circuit you will be fine. If you’ve got three 20 amp circuits, it’s likely that one of them is isolated to the a/c’s device, but this is easy enough to ring out. For $5 at any hardware store you can get a circuit tester that checks grounding and polarity too.
Ysabelle- you are (a)dangerpus (what a douche)
Let a licensed electrician come out for a free estimate and they will know right away.
If you want to use them maybe you can negotiate the price.
Electricity is dangerpus.
Thanks for the advice.
We have 5 lines metal clad bx. One skinny galvanized tube that seems to go to the back. 8 breakers 3@20 amp. We will do the isolation test, but we are also thinking about getting an electrician to provide an evaluation. thanks again.