2020 Power consumption [Was: Re: MASSBUS disk emulator (Was: Unibus controller for MFM disks)]

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Wed Oct 19 15:44:52 CDT 2016


> On Oct 19, 2016, at 2:41 PM, Eric Smith <spacewar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In the US, the 2020 was sold with a NEMA 5-20P plug, so 120V at less than
> 20A, 

Less than 16, in fact.  NEC requires branch circuits to be loaded to at most 80% of the circuit breaker setting, so 16 amps on a "20 amp" circuit.

	paul




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