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Quoted from jake35:well I guess I'm officially in the club, had all 4 machines going at once over the weekend and fried the breaker. Does going to a 30 amp double pole breaker solve these issues? What sort of wiring/amp do I need for 4-6 machines?
Do all of your games have all leds in them? That can reduce the usage by up to 60%.
Quoted from Otaku:All my games are on two different 15 AMP breakers that are shared with the rest of the normal outlets in the house. Never had any issues except when turning the arcade machines on at the same time (mainly to see if my breakers were even working lol, I was surprised how far I could push it already) - then it went. Granted, they're mostly EM so it's basically a bunch of lightbulbs.
Although the project went dormant a while back, I'm rerouting an old backyard connection that ran through the basement that had it's own dedicated 20A circuit to use in part of my gameroom.
But how many were being played? That's the true test. 
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