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Quoted from pinbrick:Is it necessary to dedicate a circuit to this pinball machine? The circuit it's plugged into now is pretty busy, but nothing too consuming.
HOW MANY GAMES ON A SINGLE CIRCUIT BREAKER?
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By now you have probably heard that commercial arcades put 6 pinball machines on each 20A circuit.
How did they come up with that formula?
The National Electric Code wants circuit breakers to see 80% of their rated load. So for a 20A breaker, the ideal number is 16 amps.
Most pinball machines draw about 1.6 to 2 amps peak.
Some pinball machines with a ton of lamps may even draw 2.4 amps.
If you take any random 6 pinball machines at an arcade and measure their amperage draw at the breaker panel, you see that each breaker is seeing ~13 amps. Well under our 16 amp goal.
In your home, where you don't have to worry about employees moving games around and messing up your breaker loads, if you measured a 13 amp draw on a circuit, you could safely add one additional game and still be under your 16 amp target.
Quoted from Diamondbed96:Its an idea. I'm having problem with my left flipper I bought a pinball this week the left flipper has to be repaired because the bushing is cracked and broken the problem is that the previous owner glued or epoxied the crack broken bushing . now I can't get the flipper and the bushing off to fix it because of the hard epoxy or glue .does anyone have any suggestions how I can fix this
Do you have the flipper mech off of the playfield?
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