Electrical question

Hi

I have a few Q's regarding my setup and the Electric, I'm from the UK so everything is on 240v.

In my room I will be running 4 x 1000w HID lamps, Load split evenly over 2 separate double Plugs either side of the room.

All on 1 32A RCD/MCD breaker, I will also have a multitude of osc fans and duct fans amounting to about 400 watts worth.

Then I will have 1 or 2 1000w oil radiators on at lights off.

My questions,

Is the 32A breaker's limit 7600w? 7600/240 = 32.08 or there abouts

If I was too only want to be using MAX 80% of the 32A, So would that be roughly 6000w available at a safe level?

If I time my oils rads to only come on once all lights have gone off, Should it be fine?


Most the time I will be using 2 x 1kw and 2 x 600w, But there will be a few weeks where they overlap and I'm using all 4x1kw at once for 12 hr periods, I just want to sleep well at night

Thanks guys!

You'll be fine if you follow the program you've laid out in your post. Even if you have a timer act up and lock on, you still have the capacity to take the combined load without being past 85% capacity. I would suggest giving your wiring a good looking over too, just to be sure. Even new wiring can have issues that wont show up until you really put the load to it. With the things people like us are doing with these circuits, a little extra caution is worth the extra piece of mind.