Electrical question

Rentaldog

Well-Known Member
Hello all,

I just wanted to stop in and have some of you more experienced individuals look over my electrical situation to make sure im not missing anything obvious.

I currently have a 1000w ballast and a fan rated at 190w on one outlet. I have a timer on the outlet, and a power strip with surge protection plugged into the timer that supplies power to the fan and light.

The outlet is tied to a 20amp breaker, and from some googling around it seems like it would be safe to continually run 1,920 watts on it at once. The room has two separate outlets that seem to be tied to their own individual 20 amp breakers. Two 20 amps for the room, and two thirty amps for the adjoining room it seems.

Does that sound ok? My 1000w apollo ballast just died on me after maybe two weeks of use, and I wanted to make sure that it wasnt something related to how I have things hooked up. I run it at 100% power, dont use the dim feature. I just contacted the seller on amazon, and I plan on calling up apollos warranty department in the morning. Id just hate to fry another ballast if its something im doing wrong on my end.

Thanks in advance for any help :)
 

visajoe1

Well-Known Member
you have plenty of amperage based on your breakers, separate circuits, and draw. are you sure there is nothing else on the lines? best way to check is old fashioned way, turn breakers off one by one to confirm circuits.
 
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