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Last winter I was running 2 brooder lamps for the chicks, 2 heated pet bowls, a big radiant wall heater in the dog cabin, a motion detector and my pool pump and pool heated all off the same breaker. I had more than 100 feet of extension cords plugged in I put things on timers so the wall heater could not turn on at the same time as the pool. Somehow the timers crossed and blew the fuses for the pool, and I had a small fire in the wall between my home office and the pool and we lost electricity to much of the house.
Thank goodness I was up reading posts here because DH was snoring, The fire put itself out nearly as soon as it started but it melted the irrigation controll box (unplugged for the winter), melted the fuse boxes, dripped molted plastic al over the floor....
I had looked at the breaker box and saw there is a huge breaker for a barn we never built. I assumed it powered the outdoor outlet nearest where the barn would have been. It does not. Electrician can't find where it goes to, The outdoor outlet I used was on the same breaker with the pool equipment and that is adequate for the pool and that is it. (indoor pool with a current - about the size of 2 hot-tubs).
I now have solar-powered lights in the coop and dog shed, and worthless solar motion detector lights. I'm hoping the chickens won't need any heat and the dogs will be in the house for the winter which means they can't go in and out when they please when no one is here.
I did find another outlet not on the same circuit with the pool that I can run 100 feet of cord to chickenville if I need to, but it is too far from the doggie cabin.
Last winter I was running 2 brooder lamps for the chicks, 2 heated pet bowls, a big radiant wall heater in the dog cabin, a motion detector and my pool pump and pool heated all off the same breaker. I had more than 100 feet of extension cords plugged in I put things on timers so the wall heater could not turn on at the same time as the pool. Somehow the timers crossed and blew the fuses for the pool, and I had a small fire in the wall between my home office and the pool and we lost electricity to much of the house.
Thank goodness I was up reading posts here because DH was snoring, The fire put itself out nearly as soon as it started but it melted the irrigation controll box (unplugged for the winter), melted the fuse boxes, dripped molted plastic al over the floor....
I had looked at the breaker box and saw there is a huge breaker for a barn we never built. I assumed it powered the outdoor outlet nearest where the barn would have been. It does not. Electrician can't find where it goes to, The outdoor outlet I used was on the same breaker with the pool equipment and that is adequate for the pool and that is it. (indoor pool with a current - about the size of 2 hot-tubs).
I now have solar-powered lights in the coop and dog shed, and worthless solar motion detector lights. I'm hoping the chickens won't need any heat and the dogs will be in the house for the winter which means they can't go in and out when they please when no one is here.
I did find another outlet not on the same circuit with the pool that I can run 100 feet of cord to chickenville if I need to, but it is too far from the doggie cabin.
