seriouslylosingit Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I tripped my first breaker yesterday... I am not sure why this makes me proud, but I'm guessing some of you understand... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Simmons Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Tripped a breaker or GFCI? Any fool can trip a GFCI, and I should know, but it takes a real pro to max out a breaker. Congrats! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k6ccc Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 We understand! I'm all LED so not an issue for me however.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiplorenzo Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 My First year was that way... 16 panels of Incan LED... Blew the circuit.... had to re route power ... CHanged over to led... No issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gork68 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I have been all LED for years for many reasons - power for one obviously but I also love the brightness and colors. I have been decorating the house for more than a dozen years with a static display and this was my first year attempting to automate it. I was adding a ton of new stuff and my house has one single circuit outside... so I had an electrician come out and install 4 new circuits to make sure I would be fine. I have over 25,000 lights and I added 1660 RGB pixels (I know I am crazy, first year and I throw in 1660 pixels). so for grins and giggles I decide to route everything through my kill-a-watt meter while everything is on and at full power and RGB's @ 100% white... I laughed when I saw that it pulled just under 9 amps total... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjmhomes Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 we added a 100 amp sub panel with each Plug on it's own breaker, no shortage of power and ease of shutting down if needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncledan Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 200 amp panel for lights with 32 dedicated 15amp circuits. No tripped breakers here. I was never proud when I tripped breaker. That's why I put 32- 15amp circuits in. I see where you're coming from though. I used to use many 4 letter words when I tripped a circuit breaker! Dark display isn't good... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santas Helper Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Sure is a good feeling huh? Been there and done that. Static and animated. Both have the same feeling. LOL Being LED now I don't have that problem. But those were good times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seriouslylosingit Posted December 20, 2014 Author Share Posted December 20, 2014 Any idea where I could locate COLORED LED globe lights? 30 size.. Thanks for all of your replies, this is all a learning process for each of us... I happen to learn best from the school of hard knocks... My skull is a bit thick which is good and bad with this undertaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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