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    Re: How to heat a few reptiles without causing a power outage

    Look at circuit breakers in your electrical panel. Each circuit breaker is linked to one circuit. They have numbers of amps. Amps are the amplitude of electrical power that can be drawn before that circuit breaker overloads and trips the power out.
    If you are running window AC units that plug into the wall, you are going to have issues, because air conditioners draw a large amount of amps.
    That is why houses with central AC have a dedicated circuit just for the AC.
    You will have to run the AC on a circuit that doesnt have much else on it.
    So for example,you could run the AC on the “living room” circuit. But make sure your herp systems are running on a separate circuit, like a bedroom circuit for example.
    Also, in general running AC is going to draw a lot of electricity, and can overload your whole electrical service of it is too small.


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