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So we ran into an issue the other day. Our circuit breaker tripped. The breaker to our media room is 15A times that by 120V you got about 1800watts. My PC pulls about 600-650 her is 400-450 our portal AC pulls 900. So this exceeds our circuit breakers limit. The breaker tripped while I was encoding on a 3rd PC while maxing out OC benchmarking Vega and she was gaming. Is there was a way to up the breaker limit or will we need to rewire the room?

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1 minute ago, Snaeb said:

So we ran into an issue the other day. Our circuit breaker tripped. The breaker to our media room is 15A times that by 120V you got about 1800watts. My PC pulls about 600-650 her is 400-450 our portal AC pulls 900. So this exceeds our circuit breakers limit. The breaker tripped while I was encoding on a 3rd PC while maxing out OC benchmarking Vega and she was gaming. Is there was a way to up the breaker limit or will we need to rewire the room?

DO NOT REPLACE THE BREAKER WITH A HIGHER AMPERAGE ONE!!! The wires in your wall are likely only rated for 15 amps and pushing 20+ could cause a house fire. You'd be better off moving your PC and stuff to a different circuit.

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Just now, Kilobytez95 said:

DO NOT REPLACE THE BREAKER WITH A HIGHER AMPERAGE ONE!!! The wires in your wall are likely only rated for 15 amps and pushing 20+ could cause a house fire. You'd be better off moving your PC and stuff to a different circuit.

Unfortunately we are still 2 years from being able to do this. Our portable AC is a must or our room hits 35*C

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5 minutes ago, Snaeb said:

Unfortunately we are still 2 years from being able to do this. Our portable AC is a must or our room hits 35*C

Get a long extension cord.

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4 minutes ago, Snaeb said:

Unfortunately we are still 2 years from being able to do this. Our portable AC is a must or our room hits 35*C

How about connect the A/C's plug to a socket in a different room?

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