Rivermud76
Fish Crazy
Well one solution is to add outlets to your house. This can be easy or difficult depending on how you want it to look.
1. You need to find which breaker controls the power for the room in question and find out the amperage setting. ie 20 amp breaker. A 20 amp breaker will handle quite a few aquariums quite easilly as long as the power isn't also used for lighting or powering other appliances.
2. Map your outlets and also map out where you would like the new ones to go. You can purchase 4 plug outlets if you choose.
3. Go to the hardware store and purchase Black white and green electrical wiring if you plan on running the wiring through metal conduit, or you will have to purchase Romex which is an insulated set of wires if you choose to run it loose in the wall.
4. Cut you hole/s in the wall to access your wire. You can access it from the breaker box and wire a new breaker or from the last outlet in a chain, from there you can either elect to mount exterior boxes or in wall boxes. If you choose in wall you will be tearing up your drywall to install, if you choose exterior you will be mounting metal conduit on your wall and then mounting the boxes to it.
In any case this is a little bit overkill, but if you are running a serious danger of overloading your system or breaker you may want to go through this. I installed 6 new exterior mounted outlets with conduit and 2 new breakers this weekend for 125.00 plus the entire weekend for installation. I must say my garage is now a serious workshop for all my DIY projects and I am no longer worried about not having enough power or blowing a breaker.
1. You need to find which breaker controls the power for the room in question and find out the amperage setting. ie 20 amp breaker. A 20 amp breaker will handle quite a few aquariums quite easilly as long as the power isn't also used for lighting or powering other appliances.
2. Map your outlets and also map out where you would like the new ones to go. You can purchase 4 plug outlets if you choose.
3. Go to the hardware store and purchase Black white and green electrical wiring if you plan on running the wiring through metal conduit, or you will have to purchase Romex which is an insulated set of wires if you choose to run it loose in the wall.
4. Cut you hole/s in the wall to access your wire. You can access it from the breaker box and wire a new breaker or from the last outlet in a chain, from there you can either elect to mount exterior boxes or in wall boxes. If you choose in wall you will be tearing up your drywall to install, if you choose exterior you will be mounting metal conduit on your wall and then mounting the boxes to it.
In any case this is a little bit overkill, but if you are running a serious danger of overloading your system or breaker you may want to go through this. I installed 6 new exterior mounted outlets with conduit and 2 new breakers this weekend for 125.00 plus the entire weekend for installation. I must say my garage is now a serious workshop for all my DIY projects and I am no longer worried about not having enough power or blowing a breaker.
