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Card 485 of 9982026-08-29 issue

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Light Limits: The Christmas-Light Calculator That Checks the Limit No Breaker Sees

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A safety calculator works out both how many light sets can be chained and how much the household circuit can carry.

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The calculator models a display as both a series of chained sets and a load distributed across a household circuit, rather than treating “how many sets?” as a single number. Its examples use the relationship between voltage, current, and watts, including separate 80-percent working figures for 120 V and 230 V supplies. Regional sections also distinguish UK fused plugs from Australian and New Zealand unfused plugs.

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