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[ChromaChameleons]

Consider the age of your house . If it was built or had electrical refurb done in the 70s , it may have aluminum wire installed. This stuff is dangerous if it was ever installed with copper connections as the aluminum expands and contracts with heat and the connection come loose. Also copper / aluminum connection will oxidze and produce resistance at the connection , thereby producing heat and a potential for fire.

Also , any house should have 15 amp circuits run to no more than 6 recepticles or lights per circuit. The wire should be minimum 14 gauge and the 15 amp breaker or fuses should be the limiting factor, not the wire.

I remember , as a kid, my dad found a fuse in our house's fuse box that had a copper penny screw in behind the fuse. Thats the stuff that causes fires.

If you are in doubt , get a professional opinion and an inspection of your wiring. This thread has some excellent accurate info and some bad info. Don't take a chance with electricity , if you don't underdstand it .

 

[laurie]

Howdy All,


If you enter your cents/KWH then it will calculate total accumulated cost as well as $/min/hr/day/wk/month/year. The unit defaults to $0.25/KWH but your cost may be between $0.10 and up. I'm running over the max limits so I pay the max per KWH for the majority of my power. With all of the taxes etc. I'm close to $0.25/KWH for the "excess" power used to run the chameleon room. That works out to about $1.00 per watt per year. So if I add a 100W lamp @ 12 hours a day it costs me about $100/yr run run it . Guess why I'm not "allowed" to add a couple of 400W Metal Halide lamps to light the enitre room .

Dave if I did this and David saw what my babies" cost, I am afraid half of mine might be for sale on here tomorrow. He still has no idea what I pay just for crickets, let alone the other "extra" food items. Sad to say on this thread but he is much better left in the dark.