Andrea here with Sew-To-Fit, today we're going to talk about the most important
thing that we should consider in our sewing room, that is safety. Safety and
electrical outlets, irons, our sewing machines, the lighting, everything. Fire
hazards come in so many ways in our sewing room... in ways we never could have
imagined. We have to also consider the the monster in the wall that we feel
like.. "oh my god" the lights went off. I can't sew. And then, what about the days
when it's super clear, super sunny outside and your lights just go out
while you're in the middle of sewing? Well that happened to me and I'm
wondering, "hey we don't have any wind, there's no hurricane, what's going on? Why
are my lights off? "Oh, let me check the light bill. LOL
That's what we do. So our first inclination is to go flip the breaker
switch back on. Cause, you don't know what's going on. You're like... OH, my lights went
off, let's see??? the street lamps are on the lights down stairs are still on! Let me
go and check the breaker box. So you go to the breaker box,
"muah", and there is no breaker switch out, So why is there no breaker switch up but
my room is only half lite, I don't know why did they go out? The lights went
out the fan went out every sewing machine went out the iron went off
everything I had no clue so I called my friendly neighborhood electrical person
because there is something lurking in the wall that you have no idea.
That scared the crap out of me y'all it really did
I don't understand what
all this means I just know when I put stuff in the plug I have energy and I
also know because of what I was told and I also follow these rules is that
all my sewing machines and everything needs to be plugged into protective
surge protector or a surge protector and when I do that I expect everything
to work and nothing to get broken
I have had a
sewing machine that was not plugged into a surge protector and my motor blew out
from an electrical storm we were
one thing that I learned amps amps and
watts that's amps and watts... so number one amps
number two watts, W.A.T.T.S.. and AMPS
amperages and wattage two most important
words you're gonna have to learn besides how to calculate 1/2 plus 1/4 which by
the way is 3/4
is it yeah
anyway you're going to have to know those numbers and
calculate those to find out your amperage that you are pulling on your
circuit. So... let's go into what a circuit is a circuit is like a Christmas tree
you take a Christmas tree and you're going to put five strands of lights five
strands... I just thought about Christmas it could be whatever. You're gonna hook
them back to back to back so you're gonna take those lights and you're gonna
have one row the blue and yellow then you're gonna hook another one the red
and green then you're gonna hook another one so you're just gonna create links
one link after the other so let's just stick with five strands of Lights and to
all those strands of lights or hooked up you don't have light until you do what
until you put it in some energy that Christmas tree now you can refer to in
my examples for the rest of this video as a circuit all of those lights are
dependent on that one item being plugged in and that one item being fed with the
amount of electricity that that one item can handle that one item is called a
breaker the breaker is a in a big box at your house basement outside wherever it
is inside it behind the door it's in a breaker box that breaker box has a
bunch of little bitty breakers inside and on each one of those breakers it
tells you 15a you know 28:25 838 58 that means it has a load
bare a baring load of 15 amps 25 amps 30 amps 40 amps 50 amps guess what your
dryer just your dryer alone has to be on its own breaker your stove same thing
they have to have their own break up you know why because that breaker has to
push out a whole lot of energy to that circuit which only one thing can write
that circuit that's your dryer or your stove you got
to Brinker's this 15 amps you have your five strands of lights on your Christmas
tree so let's consider five strands of light and each one of them take three
amps each one take three amps that's five strands times fit 5 3 5 strands
times 3 is 15 the average outlet can only take 15 amps
but wait a minute your breaker only has a 15 out so what do you need with an
extension cord because if you use an extension cord with 4 plugs or 3 plugs
that means you're gonna be in a whole lot more low - that one plug but in our
sort of room we have 1 2 3 4 5 plugs so on my side one side of my sewing room I
add the fans that plug this plug that I have five items pulling on that one
breaker so five items pulling on that one breaker the ceiling fan is already
pulling this low it is a fancy ceiling fan pulling on the same breakers breaker
that all of these irons all of these saw machines and all
lights on this side of my room is pulling all meaning that none of this
stuff check it out none of this stuff should be on that same breaker none of
it none of that stuff should be on the same breaker because that breaker only
requires 15 can only handle 15 amps so how do I discover and know what I can
put on that break what a load I can put on you have your instruction manuals
read them let's go with number one I want y'all to understand the difference
and why it's important to not even think the smallest of iron's don't matter they
all do you need to get a calculator you need your pencil you need your manuals
for your urns and whatever even your sewing machines your lamps your sergers
anything you have plugged in you need this information okay number one I look
at say my pressing station over there so-called Pro iron which by the way does
not have a grounding plug it's just plain and it requires a whole 11 amps
because it's non grounded and it requires it takes 1,750 watts 1750 watts
divided by the amount of volts that it requires I calculated it it at cuz you
divide to get the amps let me give you the quote first let me give you that you
take the Watts that is written on your machine so you're gonna take your
formula is watts so that's 1750 divided by the number of
volts so you divide that by volts and that's going to equal the amps that you
are pulling now remember like I said we are working with a 15 out
breaker so if we're working with a 15 out breaker and this machine this item
takes 1,750 watts I'm gonna divide it by the amount of.... here it is "this is a 1750
watt appliances to avoid a circuit overload do not operate this iron
station on the same circuit with another high wattage appliance don't".... WAIT a
minute let's just look,.... look how far down this was in there! Who reads that?!? oh it
should have been right here this is the plug in to the plug to the high gauge
extension cord but even this here says do not plug more
than the specified number of watts into this cord
it also says that on power strips we have you know you got this one here it's
got all of these different parts to it but it still tells you not to put more
than 15 amps in that one cord in that one power supply so if that's one 15
amps and all of this is 15 amps if I feel that up then I've already
overloaded my breaker then I have those other plugs left over and I plug stuff
in that I'm already overloaded my breaker this says don't put more in here
then it says it can handle I forgot to tell you oh okay here we go this says 13
amps this one cord can I accept more than 13 amps oh my god I am so geeky I
geeked out on this stuff y'all I geeked out this is this has blown my mind and I
tore out the don't tear off the tag...its against state law and, federal regulations
I tore the tag off.... so I can't see... oh here's something let's see what this
is??...it is the UL, aaah, it's 13 amps too. so this grounded cord can handle
13 amps that's good if an extension cord is absolutely necessary a cord with 15
amps or greater shall be used hey didn't this thing say only 13 amps
this home iron requires 15 amp extension cord or greater so you telling me I
can't even use this industrial extension cord on a home iron that doesn't even
have a grounded plug fire hazard that's that's unsettling so moving forward here
this iron...
so I'm gonna divide this up so let's go ahead and do that because I
can't say straight here this I'm going kind of Loony toon, here so anyway you
look at the back of the iron and it's gonna tell you how many volts it uses
this one says... okay so 120 volts into 171 7 1750 so divided by 120 equals gotta
make sure you get these numbers right 1,500 watts divided by 120 volts equals
here we go now I got the numbers right so 1500 divided by 120 equals 12 point 5
amps
that's scary the Rowenta picture up here I already
showed you picture up here that one requires 1750 divided by 120 volts oh my
god 1750 divided by 120 volts. 14.5 amps ...that means the
only thing can be plugged on that outlet is that iron. I know I'm doing this
right y'all I really believe I'm doing this correctly so I'm gonna test it one
more time if I'm wrong I will put this information but I talked to this
electrician over and over again and I went to this website which is right here
and the link is in below that way y'all could calculate it yourselves and put
your information in yourself cuz it's due to auto calculations that's 11.6
this 1400 amp iron 1400 watt iron is 14 is 11 is 11 amps so we have
we got 11 here then my industrial I found out, people think that industrial
need to take a lot more energy this is only a thousand watts so a thousand
watts means that I can do 1,000 divided by 120 equals 8 amps it only takes 8
amps 1000 divided by 120 equals 8 point 3 3 amps which means I can run this and
my eight point industrial sewing machine in the same wall circuit that would be 8
+ 8 well 16 that's pretty tough 12 no that's 16 that's pushing it y'all that's
really pushing it I'm trying to slow down I think I'm a little bit anxious
right now because this stuff is like it really scared me. Do sound depressed?
I'm not trying to be, guys I just want you guys to understand how important
this is and it's not to be taken lightly I feel like we need to just really be
more vigilant about all the electronics we are running around all of this fabric
this is a lot of fabric a lot of polyester a lot of rayon you know you
know how fast a tree will go up, let alone tree pulp. I just want you guys
to be careful take your time make sure that you pay attention to you know the
amps that these sewing machines these irons the sewing machines are negligible
those sewing machines are negligible as far as how much power they take. using
LED lights make a big difference they take less energy they have a high
brightness but low voltage low Watts that would be good they save you energy
as well as they save you from using up all your amps. we should just consider
each breaker is like a little envelope of money Electrical money and we just
started taking money off the table every time we plug something into the outlet
and once we run out of electrical money we can't plug anything else into that
breaker that that plug so I would suggest if you use extension cords a lot
then you need to tape over or put baby covers on the outlets to remind you not
to use that outlet because you already have that breaker almost to its max
oh and don't think I forgot to tell you don't think that because you can go
get somebody to change out your breaker and put a bigger breaker in it like a
higher breaker like 20 25 nope mm-hmm I already tried because the reason why is
you got those Christmas lights on that tree those Christmas lights are already
wired for the lights they can handle the light they're made for the same is with
your circuit they are wired with the amount of wire or the kind of wire for
your circuit.it requires....any kind of heat or if it's a big machine plug it
into the outlet by itself. those are my suggestions do not take that as advice
from an electrical person I am not qualified to give you any advice
regarding this stuff I am only qualified to handle my own
business and to get and research the information on my own for my protection
and for my family's safety I know my mom has dealt with fire in her house Lord
forbid
just be careful people be careful this is not to be taken lightly stop what
you're doing and stop your projects and go check your amps your breakers how
much they can handle check how much you have got plugged in make sure you don't
have your cords overloaded make sure you make sure that you're protecting your
family and yourself from the dangers in our sewing rooms that we don't even
think to check especially when you have plugs around where your fabrics are
sitting or where your fabrics are stored and where any of the chemicals that we
use in our sewing room even cans spray cans of starch, those are all dangerous
items that are right here... all right that's it you guys I appreciate you
stopping by thank you for joining me thank you for listening and please take
heed and follow my instructions and go get professional advice to make your
room your house your sewing space safe and I appreciate you liking and
subscribing this video. If you don't take one thing away and that is to check and
make sure you keep yourself safe. From my heart and my home to yours peace out
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