Circuit Breaker

i want to build a room that runs all on one circuit
i want to run 2k hps lights (2 area's for flowering) 1 400w mh (area for mothers) - fans - air & water pumps - A/C's

what do i ask my electrician to do

I do not know the answer to your question, but I did hire a pot smoking buddy electrician to come to my house this year. ...well, he is my son.
I told him that last year, I could only plug up and run so many lights and pumps and then the circuit would trip when I added another light.

He said the cheapest thing to do is add a 2nd circuit breaker. He ran a wire from the circuit board and a new added circuit breaker through my attic to the bedroom closet and added two plugs to which I put two surge protectors to plug in all my lights.

He gave me a list to buy at Lowes.

Cost me $32 for parts, $20 for the 50 feet of wire, $12 for the circuit breaker, and the box and receptable, and two plugs,
to add that line.


I gave him two grams of hash for his labor and I helped him do the work.

You need to find out your total amps you will use for everything and get him to wire things according to that. Keep in mind you are going to be running things under load for long periods so you should stay around 80% of each circuits max load.

so what do i need

Dradden said:

You need to find out your total amps you will use for everything and get him to wire things according to that. Keep in mind you are going to be running things under load for long periods so you should stay around 80% of each circuits max load.

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so are you saying i should be thinking of more then one circuit breaker for the room like each light should have its own

For all that you want to run i would split it up into individual 20 amp circuits. Otherwise your going to have to have some real beefy wire and breaker 50-60 amp at least. And if for some reason that 1 breaker flips which they can do sometimes for no good reason than all your gear is shutdown. The 2 lights could run on their own 30 amp circuit and be comfortable knowing the circuit is safe. I would have another 20 amp for all your pumps and fans and yet another for your AC depending on how much it draws.

So you would need for breakers 1 30amp, and 2, 20amp. For the 30amp circuit use 10 gauge wire and for the 20 you can use 12 gauge.

Dradden said:

For all that you want to run i would split it up into individual 20 amp circuits. Otherwise your going to have to have some real beefy wire and breaker 50-60 amp at least. And if for some reason that 1 breaker flips which they can do sometimes for no good reason than all your gear is shutdown. The 2 lights could run on their own 30 amp circuit and be comfortable knowing the circuit is safe. I would have another 20 amp for all your pumps and fans and yet another for your AC depending on how much it draws.

So you would need for breakers 1 30amp, and 2, 20amp. For the 30amp circuit use 10 gauge wire and for the 20 you can use 12 gauge.

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this is what i needed + rep