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How many 60 watt light bulbs can a 300 volt wire on a standard 120 amp house current safely light?
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∙ 11y ago
You are perhaps confusing your terms. However, you should be able to figure out what you want from a few formulas.
Voltage = Current x Resistance
Watts = Volts x Amps
A standard 60 watt incandescent bulb draws .5 amps. You just add up the number of bulb currents to get total current. For example, 10 bulbs would require 5 amps. Since you should not exceed 80% of the load on a breaker, a standard 15 amp breaker at 80% load is 12 amps. So on this circuit you could have 24 60 watt bulbs.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 12y agoYou can connect as many lamps in series as you wish. However, none of them will operate at their rated power and, therefore, will be very dim. This is because to operate at its rated power, a lamp must be subject to its rated voltage (both are printed on the lamp's glass envelope). The only way a number of lamps can be subject to their rated voltages is to connect them in parallel across a supply having the same voltage.
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∙ 15y agoCurrent (amps) = Power (watts) divided by Voltage (120). the answer is still 1/2 amp
Divide 120 volts by 60 watts to get answer of 1/2 amp.
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