Wall outlets are generally on a 15 amp circuit. However, there can be more than one wall outlet on that circuit. Check your circuit breaker box...each breaker should be labeled as to what it controls. Check it by plugging a lamp into the wall socket. Throw the breaker and see whether the lamp turns off. See if other things (ceiling lights or fans) turn off as well.
Once you know what that circuit controls, you'll know what you can plug in safely. A desktop computer has a power supply that can draw a lot of electricity. For example, if your computer has a 700 watt power supply, it can draw up to 700W/120V = 5.8 amps of current. (The equation is amps = power in watts divided by voltage.)
Your room heater is probably the other major power drain on the circuit. If it is a 1000W space heater, it's drawing 8.3 amps. If both the heater and the desktop PC are drawing their maximum power at the same time, you will be very close to tripping your circuit breaker.
You can safely add a power strip to let you plug more things into one wall outlet, as long as the total current draw from all the things is less than the 15 amp capacity of the circuit breaker. However, do not daisy-chain power strips.
Hi there, so i really don't understand the things labeled on the circuit box mean but i can describe to you there is this large box where you can see the consumed kwh and at right this rounded switch that turns off etc where there is a power outage like in storms etc.. then there is the switches at left only three of them (idk if that makes sense since it a 4 rooms + kitchen, bathroom apt ??) at each of those switches it says "250v 400v~" so idk what this means would the entire house support only that or each room..?
But i think it can support a pc because i checked my heater consumption and i was quite shocked that it says 1800w to 2000w, maybe that's why during winter i couldn't turn on 2 of them for long or the power went off on the entire house.
So i think i can turn a pc here, probably i can't use both pc and heater like you said or it will go off.
And yes i already have to use a power strip to plug the things described above, but i already and since ever do that daisy chain thing you pointed out not to de, because it's the only way i can reach the things along this room, since there only 1 wall plug, i have two power strips connected to each other from the wall plug (each of them with 3 extra plugs - that i can fully use without having a power outage, but never things like 2 heaters).
Is this a no? The daisy chain? It's the only way i canmanage to connect stuff around the furniture arrange.
I use like that since ever the only problem that comes to me with that is using "heavy" things like two heaters in that daisy chain but i never need or use two heaters. Would it be problematic using a pc? The pc would go on the first power strip. Sorry for such long reply but i'm trying to sort this out.
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