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<blockquote data-quote="Tanis143" data-source="post: 3256535" data-attributes="member: 43724"><p>This is all too true. The last rental we were in we had two rooms that were pigtailed together behind a 15 amp GFI outlet in the bathroom. Those two rooms were the living room and our computer room. Living room had a plasma tv, old school dvr, xbox and a computer. The computer room had three computers, two 19" CRT monitors, a 32in CRT tv, another dvr (before the days of whole home dvr), plus all the computer accessories and all my chargers for work related items. All of this together was pulling WAY more than 15 amps. Wife called me one day while I was at work to tell me those two rooms had no power. Got home to find the GFI was smoked. That was when I found out how it was wired. To install a new breaker and split the rooms would have been easy due to the breaker box being about 6 feet away in the master bedroom closet on an interior wall BUT the place was wired with aluminum wiring and I was not going to mess with that (I know that by itself aluminum is fine, its when you try mixing copper and aluminum without the proper connectors that causes fires). Landlord wouldn't pay to have it fixed properly so I through a .59 receptacle in its place, took down as much eq as I could and told her I was not responsible for it. We bought our house 3 weeks later and moved out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tanis143, post: 3256535, member: 43724"] This is all too true. The last rental we were in we had two rooms that were pigtailed together behind a 15 amp GFI outlet in the bathroom. Those two rooms were the living room and our computer room. Living room had a plasma tv, old school dvr, xbox and a computer. The computer room had three computers, two 19" CRT monitors, a 32in CRT tv, another dvr (before the days of whole home dvr), plus all the computer accessories and all my chargers for work related items. All of this together was pulling WAY more than 15 amps. Wife called me one day while I was at work to tell me those two rooms had no power. Got home to find the GFI was smoked. That was when I found out how it was wired. To install a new breaker and split the rooms would have been easy due to the breaker box being about 6 feet away in the master bedroom closet on an interior wall BUT the place was wired with aluminum wiring and I was not going to mess with that (I know that by itself aluminum is fine, its when you try mixing copper and aluminum without the proper connectors that causes fires). Landlord wouldn't pay to have it fixed properly so I through a .59 receptacle in its place, took down as much eq as I could and told her I was not responsible for it. We bought our house 3 weeks later and moved out. [/QUOTE]
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