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Posted by ArdRi on August 6, 2007 at 16:32:46:
Per my specific situation I have at the moment a BAT VK-200 , a 200 wpc power amplifier (when driving my 4 ohm speakers) and i live here by myself. I'll be sure not to upgrade the equipment without upgrading the breaker and wires therefrom and I'll keep the old 15 amp outlet handy to swap it back in after i burn the place down.. what i think i do understand about the ratings of AC outlets is the rating denotes its current handling capacities beyond which the metal will begin to become unstable. What i am as to not informed are the potential characteristics of the AC coming in to my Unit at the breaker box and how it is regulated. If the current amperage is solely dependent upon the demands of the appliance drawings is there some limit on the potential amperage without the circuit breaker. In other words if it were possible for the breaker to fail to break the circuit and the power am for example did some thing unusual and began drawing exponentially higher quantities of current is there some limiting factor further downstream and if so what is that limit. For what its worth i do have the PS Audio Duet between the wall and the system which is supposed to protect the equipment.