Ran this with the EcoFlow Pro battery generator and it pulled 1,397 watts for running at HIGH heat w/ slow fan and 786 watts with LOW heat .
12A @ 120V or 1440W is the max a space heater is allowed to pull if it's designed for a 15-amp circuit.
Sticker states 120 V 60Hz 1500 watts . Used on 15 Amp circuit .
This is the ticket. Be it NG, LPG, or other.Set at 68 and we have a heat pump, with a high efficiency oil furnace as back up. In a typical winter, we’ll use 1/2 tank of oil during the colder times when the heat pump can’t handle the demand. Before we had a heat pump we used almost 2 tanks of oil per winter…
This is the ticket. Be it NG, LPG, or other.
Plus if you have some local resistance heaters for short use rooms (baffroom, office, even guest bedrooms), plus either wood or pellet for say a main occupancy space (living room, bar, etc)
I am a first believer in combo heat sources.
Who has 15 amp receptacle circuits? Most homes are wired with #12 wire on 20 amp breakers.12A @ 120V or 1440W is the max a space heater is allowed to pull if it's designed for a 15-amp circuit.
Yes indeed.Depends how well built and insulated your home is.
Who has 15 amp receptacle circuits? Most homes are wired with #12 wire on 20 amp breakers.
Not true here unless you specified/built/wired your own place.Who has 15 amp receptacle circuits? Most homes are wired with #12 wire on 20 amp breakers.
It must be a regional thing. I wired lots of apartments/homes in the '90's and the only 15 amp circuit was the smoke detector circuit, sometimes lighting circuits. West central Indiana.No, most homes are only wired with #12 wire on 20 amp breakers on the circuits required by code, which is dining/kitchen, laundry, and more recently, bathroom circuits. In most houses, all other 120V circuits are 15 amps.
And you'll have a real hard time finding a 120V space heater rated for the 1920 watts you can pull out of a 20 amp circuit. Even if you did, you probably won't be able to plug it in because it'll have a NEMA 5-20 plug on the end of it...and most 20 amp circuits in houses only have NEMA 5-15 receptacles on them.
Regional thing, I'd say.....Not true here unless you specified/built/wired your own place.
Most all houses built on the west coast (CA. OR, WA) have 15A, 14G for rooms except kitchen
There was a time when 12/2 Romex was cheap and plentiful.
Yeah, I run into that sort of thing all the time. Lots of people out there that can twist a wirenut on a couple wires and they think they're an electrician. No training. No knowledge of the NEC. No ability to calculate power, box fill, conduit fill, ampacity etc...It isn't anymore and it's always been more expensive than 14/2 romex, at least when procured in a legitimate manner...
12/2 Romex is harder to work with than 14/2 Romex. My old house, some electrician decided it would be a swell idea to install four 12/2 romex cables into a box with a GFCI in it.
Replacing that GFCI with a new one and getting it back into the box was real fun.
I wonder what a Kill-A-Watt would say (if you want to risk one of those).Sticker states 120 V 60Hz 1500 watts . Used on 15 Amp circuit .