Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The
Speaker 1: House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 1: Welcome Home, Welcome to Home. I'm Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
Speaker 1: I design custom homes, I build custom homes, and most importantly,
Speaker 1: on the weekends, I am your guide to better understanding
Speaker 1: that place where you live. Today on the show, well,
Speaker 1: it looks like we're getting our arms around these wildfires here.
Speaker 1: There are so much, so much to go for the
Speaker 1: victims of these wildfires, for the homes and the families
Speaker 1: and the lives that have been devastated, so much to go.
Speaker 1: It is a hard pill to swallow. That the best
Speaker 1: of southern California has to start moving on and continuing
Speaker 1: with our lives getting back to normal as it were,
Speaker 1: or the new normal for a while. But we are
Speaker 1: not going to ignore the fact that there is still
Speaker 1: fresh devastation out there and a lot of confusion. So
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Today. On the show I Know last weekend,
Speaker 1: I spent both shows talking about evacuations, fire hardening, what
Speaker 1: to think what to expect in regards to the future
Speaker 1: for those victims. How do we rebuild? How do you
Speaker 1: rebuild when an entire neighborhood is destroyed? This weekend, as
Speaker 1: a result of a lot of questions coming into me
Speaker 1: this week a lot, and as a result of me
Speaker 1: doing a lot of perusing and on various forms from
Speaker 1: social media to major media outlets, and seeing so much
Speaker 1: misinformation about what to do next for fire hardening your home.
Speaker 1: I'm so concerned about this that I want to take
Speaker 1: this weekend and I want to take calls. I want
Speaker 1: to clear up confusion, I want to answer questions, and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. I've got one goal this weekend,
Speaker 1: one goal, and that is to number one, help you
Speaker 1: understand how a fire interacts with your home. And you
Speaker 1: would think, yeah, I know, dand burns it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Let me just say, if you've got time to listen
Speaker 1: this morning, stay tuned. I'm going to talk about it
Speaker 1: today and tomorrow. There is a massive amount of very
Speaker 1: let me say, potentially expensive ignorance and confusion about what
Speaker 1: exactly it means to fire harden a home. I don't
Speaker 1: want you to be one of those people all of
Speaker 1: Southern California should be seriously, seriously taking a look and
Speaker 1: asking the question, how do we fire hard on our home?
Speaker 1: How should we get our home ready? If you're not
Speaker 1: thinking about it, then that, in one degree or another,
Speaker 1: is a result of some of the confusion and the
Speaker 1: misunderstanding of what the threat level is. We don't want
Speaker 1: another one of these events. I know I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be able to stop it from devastating another neighborhood
Speaker 1: the next time it happens, but I can stop it
Speaker 1: from devastating your home if you're willing to hang with
Speaker 1: me and listen through. And that's what we're going to
Speaker 1: do right now. What's fast approaching is not a fire
Speaker 1: but the fire hardening frenzy, and we need to separate
Speaker 1: fact from fiction as we go. Sound good, all right?
Speaker 1: Let me introduce you to our crack team. Sam Is
Speaker 1: on the board. Good morning's dad, Good morning, dear. How
Speaker 1: are you doing today? I'm well, I am well, I'm well.
Speaker 1: My friend. I heard you on with Matt Money and
Speaker 1: Monks earlier this week pre five o'clock as you guys continued,
Speaker 1: and I gotta say you sounded really good, bro, really good.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I appreciated it. It's one of my little
Speaker 3: fields of expertise's psychological damage that can happen from traumatic
Speaker 3: experiences like this. So I was just glad I could help.
Speaker 1: It's probably why for all these years you've been my
Speaker 1: board on.
Speaker 3: On the contrary, you're the one that keeps me sane.
Speaker 4: Dean.
Speaker 1: And let's talk to my buddy Andrew Caravella. Good morning, hey, bud,
Speaker 1: doing I'm doing good? All right? What'd you do wrong?
Speaker 1: Saturday morning? At six? Uh?
Speaker 3: You know what?
Speaker 1: This was my idea? What oho?
Speaker 3: Everyone's laughing over in the other room.
Speaker 1: Uh, yes, right, because that's not who I am. I
Speaker 1: have some things I gotta I gotta run errands this
Speaker 1: out afternoon, so I had to do the switch. All right. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, always a pleasure anytime you and I
Speaker 1: get to work together.
Speaker 3: I love it. It's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1: Sitting across the table from me. Guess what, absolutely nobody
Speaker 1: at the moment. Tina lost badly at cards last night.
Speaker 1: I mean badly, and I feel like the humiliation of
Speaker 1: that loss as has affected her and she's just decided
Speaker 1: to sleep in today. But what card game was it?
Speaker 1: We were paying? We were playing spades, with with some friends.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a little teen game, and the trash
Speaker 1: talking gets a little heavy, and you know she's not
Speaker 1: mad at me or any No, it's not because of that, No,
Speaker 1: it's just you know, losing is exhausting.
Speaker 3: So anyway, so you say she lost, I'm assuming separate teams.
Speaker 1: Yes, she and her partner lost, and and we were.
Speaker 1: My partner and I were quite devastating. So okay, I
Speaker 1: tell you it was just it was a good night,
Speaker 1: good night at the card table.
Speaker 3: It turned out to.
Speaker 1: Be all right, y'all. Producer Richie isn't near a mic,
Speaker 1: but he is standing by and oh taking calls on
Speaker 1: the board. Let me do this real quick. The number
Speaker 1: to reach me eight three three two Ask Dean eight
Speaker 1: three three The numeral to ask Dean A three three
Speaker 1: to ask Dean phone lines or open anything you want
Speaker 1: to talk about regarding your home, fire hardening or otherwise.
Speaker 1: I'll take as many calls as I can this morning,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna do it all. Kay, Bye, Dean Sharp
Speaker 1: the house whisper. Hey, whether you live in a condo
Speaker 1: or cottage or castle for that matter, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I'm here to help you take your home to the
Speaker 1: next level. And guess who joined me just now, just now,
Speaker 1: welcome home. Well, hello sunshine, good morning to you.
Speaker 5: Good motto.
Speaker 1: I already told everybody the devastating loss at cards last
Speaker 1: night probably caused you an extra layer exhaustion, cried yourself asleep.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was pretty bad. Yeah, you're feeling okay, you're
Speaker 1: just tired, just tired. All right, Well, so glad that
Speaker 1: you're here. This is teena everybody, of course. Yay, all right,
Speaker 1: here's our plan. As I said this weekend, I'm going
Speaker 1: to be separating fact from fiction because here's my problem. Now,
Speaker 1: well it's my problem, but it's a problem. I am concerned.
Speaker 1: Now that we're turning a corner. Everybody's talking fire hardening,
Speaker 1: fire hardening. Yeah. I just took a quick glance on
Speaker 1: social media this week at various people saying, oh, check
Speaker 1: out this, and they've got some gizmo contraptions set up
Speaker 1: to put sprinklers on the top of their roof or
Speaker 1: out here or you know what. I'm saying, this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. You're starting to see it everywhere now. Actually,
Speaker 1: companies are springing up saying hire us and we will
Speaker 1: come out and do this amazing thing, so your house
Speaker 1: will never bring I just want you to take a
Speaker 1: beat and listen to me this weekend, because there's so
Speaker 1: much money, so much money that can be wasted, so
Speaker 1: much time, and at the same time for a very
Speaker 1: little effect.
Speaker 2: You're talking about putting sprinklers on the top of my
Speaker 2: house has little effect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, quite possibly. So I want you to listen very
Speaker 1: carefully to me this weekend because we're going to be
Speaker 1: talking about separating fact from fiction when it comes to fireheartening.
Speaker 1: I am going to re explain yet again in the
Speaker 1: simplest way and most direct way. I know how exactly
Speaker 1: how fire interacts with your home in a wildfire event.
Speaker 1: I know we're getting our arms around the fires fantastic,
Speaker 1: but we are not gotten our arms around the ignorance
Speaker 1: that abounds throughout the region in terms of who needs
Speaker 1: to fire hard in their home and how to do it.
Speaker 1: And we're going to address both of those. So you
Speaker 1: stick with me now this morning. I want to answer
Speaker 1: as many calls as possible, but we're going to start
Speaker 1: out with giving you a quick fire status update here.
Speaker 1: This is what I understand the latest that has crossed
Speaker 1: my desk. Here, the Palisades fire still just under twenty
Speaker 1: four thousand acres, coming in at twenty three thy seven
Speaker 1: hundred and thirteen, a big jump from yesterday. Yesterday's reporting
Speaker 1: now at forty three percent containment. It's not over, but
Speaker 1: I tell you what, that is really really good news
Speaker 1: in terms of getting control of this fire fire. Five
Speaker 1: thousand structures damaged or destroyed, the Eaten Fire fourteen thousand,
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventeen acres now seventy three percent containment.
Speaker 1: Great news there, and unfortunately even more seven thousand structures
Speaker 1: damaged or destroyed. By the way, gives you a perspective
Speaker 1: if you're not familiar with the area. The Palisades Fire
Speaker 1: at twenty four roughly twenty four thousand acres burnt, five
Speaker 1: thousand structures. The Eaten Fire at only fourteen thousand acres only,
Speaker 1: But you understand what I'm saying, just a little over
Speaker 1: half of the Palisades Fire seven thousand structures, So about
Speaker 1: thirty percent more structures burnt in the Eaten Fire at
Speaker 1: half of the acreage than the Palisades firre. And that's
Speaker 1: simply because the Palisades is a is a larger the
Speaker 1: lots are larger, the space is more open, the houses
Speaker 1: are larger, fewer houses per acre there. The Eton fire
Speaker 1: in Altadena is a very dense area with much smaller homes,
Speaker 1: and so seven thousand homes lost in Eton, five thousand
Speaker 1: in Palisates. Twelve thousand homes or structures, primarily residences lost
Speaker 1: in these two fires. The death toll currently stands at
Speaker 1: twenty seven. It is still expected to grow, Ela County
Speaker 1: reports The Ela County Sheriff reports that there are currently
Speaker 1: thirty one missing person reports between both fires that are
Speaker 1: still being followed up on and investigated. Let's hope that
Speaker 1: all of those do not turn into additions to the
Speaker 1: death toll. Evacuation orders, according to Los Angeles County Fire
Speaker 1: Chief Anthony Moroni, it will be at least another week
Speaker 1: before some people can begin heading back to their homes
Speaker 1: in the evacuated fire zones. Now, to be clear, what
Speaker 1: that means is those are evacuation zones that were not
Speaker 1: devastated by the fire. Okay, these are homes still standing
Speaker 1: in the evacuation zone, but outside the devastation zone. Getting
Speaker 1: back into the devastation zone, that's a completely different animal,
Speaker 1: and it's going to take quite a while, quite a
Speaker 1: while as we discussed on our previous two shows last week,
Speaker 1: check those out if you want to understand how an
Speaker 1: entire region rebuilds when an entire region has been devastated.
Speaker 1: The damage cost estimate currently both fires now rank among
Speaker 1: the ten most destructive in California history and the most
Speaker 1: costly in US history. Now estimates are starting to vary wildly.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what those initial estimates that you heard,
Speaker 1: this is going to be a fifty billion dollar fire incident. No, no,
Speaker 1: it's no, it's not. Many financial experts say the combined costs,
Speaker 1: and that is firefighting cost, insurance claims, cleanup, infrastructure repair,
Speaker 1: ongoing disruption of business losses will likely be somewhere over
Speaker 1: two hundred billion dollars when it's all said and done.
Speaker 1: The cleanup very quickly. The Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA,
Speaker 1: working with the Governor's Office of Emergency Services that's called OEES.
Speaker 1: They have mission tasked the US Environmental Protection Agency the
Speaker 1: EPA to safely remove and dispose of hazardous waste from
Speaker 1: homes and structures impacted by the LA fires as soon
Speaker 1: as it is safe to enter the affected areas. It
Speaker 1: is the OEES and the EPA, who are going to
Speaker 1: be doing the initial cleanup on all these fires because
Speaker 1: of the toxicity of the waste. Phase one clearing, securing
Speaker 1: damage infrastructure, fallen power lines, broken gas and water lines,
Speaker 1: damaged roads, all the things that make an initially dangerous
Speaker 1: to approach the area. Phase two will be debris removal,
Speaker 1: cleaning up household hazardous waste, paint, ammunition, pesticides, propane tanks,
Speaker 1: car batteries, all of that kind of stuff. And then
Speaker 1: finally remaining structural debris, clearing trees and testing the soil
Speaker 1: for contamination. There is no current time estimate for when
Speaker 1: residents will be allowed to return to their properties. Even
Speaker 1: undamaged homes in the devastation zone will not have full
Speaker 1: service utilities for the foreseeable future. All right, there you go,
Speaker 1: your quick estimate. When we come back, let's go to
Speaker 1: the phones, going to answer some questions, whether they are
Speaker 1: geared towards the fire or not. Take as many calls
Speaker 1: as I can this morning. You're Home with Dean Sharp
Speaker 1: the house whisper.
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Speaker 1: the house whisper with you this morning on this quite
Speaker 1: cool Saturday morning here in southern California. I hope you
Speaker 1: are safe and warm and dry wherever you are across
Speaker 1: our great land. It is a morning that we're going
Speaker 1: to take some calls. The number to reach me eight
Speaker 1: three three two ask Dean A three three the numeral
Speaker 1: to ask Dean. We are live, of course, so give
Speaker 1: me a call. Whatever's got you scratching your head about
Speaker 1: your home? I want to talk to Steve. Hey, Steve,
Speaker 1: welcome home.
Speaker 4: Thanks Stein. I appreciate your show. I really listen to
Speaker 4: it a lot. The question I have is I have
Speaker 4: a home over in Jefferson Park. It's built in nineteen
Speaker 4: twenty four with a flat roof, and I discovered recently
Speaker 4: when I put some solar domes in that I don't
Speaker 4: think the roof was ever torn off since the very beginning.
Speaker 4: And there must be six or seven layers of roofing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 4: The existing roof top is fine. There is a lot
Speaker 4: of pondings, so I was considering doing a silicon coat,
Speaker 4: but I questioned the whole you know what to do
Speaker 4: about it? Because do I really want to coat you know,
Speaker 4: a huge layer of roofing there are there aren't any
Speaker 4: There isn't any evidence of, like, you know, the house
Speaker 4: being pushed down by the load of weight. And also
Speaker 4: it provides a really good insulation for the attic.
Speaker 1: Oh, I bet it does. I'll bet it does. You's
Speaker 1: got like two inches of roofing material up there.
Speaker 4: It's probably like five or six inches almost. It's really thick.
Speaker 4: So I was considering the insulation issue, and my attic
Speaker 4: itself is very, very small. You can't really get to
Speaker 4: most of it at all. You can't even get up there.
Speaker 4: So I was going and if I did blow in
Speaker 4: insulation on the ad and the ceiling, if it never
Speaker 4: got damped, I mean, you could never get it out.
Speaker 4: So I'm thinking, just leave it the way it is,
Speaker 4: put a silicone code on the roof to protect it
Speaker 4: from the ponding, and go on with my life.
Speaker 1: So what do you think, Well, it's hard to argue
Speaker 1: against that. It really is. I mean, here's the thing,
Speaker 1: if we're talking technicalities. Code allows you to have two
Speaker 1: layers of roofing material on your home, and then when
Speaker 1: the third layer go, when it's time for a third layer.
Speaker 1: The other two layers have to tear off and you
Speaker 1: start fresh again. So you're way beyond that. But you
Speaker 1: know you didn't do it right. And uh and it's
Speaker 1: not leaking. Uh, so I would you know, it's it's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's hard to argue with the fact that, hey, my
Speaker 1: roof doesn't leak. Uh, and so but I do have
Speaker 1: a little bit of ponding, so I would say, probably
Speaker 1: get a roofer up there. And uh and who is
Speaker 1: good at what they do? I mean really good at
Speaker 1: what they do in terms of flat roof and uh
Speaker 1: you know, let them kind of free float uh some
Speaker 1: silicone into the areas that are dipped low so that
Speaker 1: you don't get the ponding effect. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: bide your time for for when it goes. But I
Speaker 1: tell you what, when the leak does start to happen,
Speaker 1: just know you're gonna have to pull the whole thing
Speaker 1: off the next Yeah.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, very good, thank you very much. That's uh,
Speaker 4: that's I really wanted to hear that, but I wasn't
Speaker 4: sure whether that would be, you know, a good idea.
Speaker 1: So yeah, now, so let me address the legality of it. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the legality of it. If Dean tells you to
Speaker 1: put on a whole nother roof layer, then Dean is
Speaker 1: telling you to do something against the code that's illegal.
Speaker 1: That's not what I'm suggesting. You can take an existing
Speaker 1: roof layer whatever your roof may be, pitched, roof tiles, whatever,
Speaker 1: and do some repair and touch up work to it.
Speaker 1: That doesn't count as putting up another roof layer. So
Speaker 1: if you've got a flat roof with some ponding, if
Speaker 1: you're not going to recoat the entire roof, okay, that's
Speaker 1: a whole other layer, and that's not what I'm suggesting.
Speaker 1: But you could definitely do some work to That's why
Speaker 1: I said, a roofer who knows what they're doing with
Speaker 1: skill in this area, you can definitely do some work
Speaker 1: to basically kind of self level and fill in the
Speaker 1: ponding areas so that you get adequate drainage everywhere. That
Speaker 1: is not a new roof. That is augmentations to your
Speaker 1: existing layers. And since you didn't lay the other layers down,
Speaker 1: you're well within your rights to do that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So a complete layer of silicones, I consider it
Speaker 4: a layer.
Speaker 1: It's a layer, it's a layer. Yeah, all right, Jerry,
Speaker 1: thank you. I appreciate you're welcome. Food for that, my friend.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take a break, uh, and then
Speaker 1: we'll come back and take some more calls your home
Speaker 1: with Dean Sharp the house whisper, Kay you fine, Dean Sharp,
Speaker 1: the house whisper, welcome home. Taking some calls this morning.
Speaker 1: The number to reach me eight three three two. Ask
Speaker 1: Dean eight three three the numeral two, Ask Dean eight
Speaker 1: three three two Ask Dean. Not much wind out there
Speaker 1: at the moment. That's great, uh, this and very very
Speaker 1: cool weather at the moment. This allows our fire teams
Speaker 1: to get an even bigger handle on the Eton and
Speaker 1: the Palisades fire, which without another major surprising wind event.
Speaker 1: And yes, yes, the weather outlook for next week looks
Speaker 1: like we've got some more of our classic Santa Anna
Speaker 1: is coming, so putting that aside, as long as they
Speaker 1: don't stir up more trouble, then it looks like we're
Speaker 1: getting the better of these two fires at this moment.
Speaker 1: Of course, after they have definitely gotten the best of us,
Speaker 1: so there's at least some light on the horizon in
Speaker 1: terms of both of these fires. I spent all last
Speaker 1: weekend talking about all aspects of these fires, and you're
Speaker 1: going to start seeing coverage change and life sort of
Speaker 1: try to return to normal for most of southern California
Speaker 1: in terms of what's being discussed in the media. But
Speaker 1: here is my concern. My concern is that there is
Speaker 1: now now kind of a fire hardening frenzy and a
Speaker 1: lot of misinformation going around out there. So I want
Speaker 1: to take a little bit of time today also answer calls,
Speaker 1: like I said, and a lot of time tomorrow over
Speaker 1: these two shows to address and separate for you the
Speaker 1: fact from the fiction when it comes to what it
Speaker 1: takes to fire harden your home. Just a lot of ignorance.
Speaker 1: I actually was. I was so impressed with it, was
Speaker 1: so impressed upon me just in the first couple of
Speaker 1: days of this week that I also spent some time
Speaker 1: asking some people just sort of you know, man on
Speaker 1: the street kind of stuff, just asking friends, family, and
Speaker 1: some coworkers. I'm like, OK, explain to me what you
Speaker 1: think the threat of fire is to your home and
Speaker 1: how you're going to deal with it or how you
Speaker 1: would deal with it. And I got to tell you,
Speaker 1: almost everybody got it wrong. And this is a concern.
Speaker 1: Plus I've had so many questions in about it that
Speaker 1: it's a concern, So I want you to hang with us.
Speaker 1: I'm not addressing a ton of it this morning, most
Speaker 1: of it on the Big Show tomorrow, but hang with
Speaker 1: me owhen Yes, by the way, just a quick announcement.
Speaker 1: You heard Andrew say earlier that tomorrow across the state,
Speaker 1: Governor Gavin Newsom has a town hall scheduled that we here,
Speaker 1: of course, are going to air on KFI. That's going
Speaker 1: to happen at nine o'clock, when we normally start the show.
Speaker 1: The town hall, though, is scheduled, anticipated to our coverage
Speaker 1: of it, to last about a half an hour or so.
Speaker 1: So currently the plan is that we'll be starting the
Speaker 1: Big Show tomorrow at nine thirty instead of nine. It's
Speaker 1: not that Dean is not on the air tomorrow, it's
Speaker 1: just that we're making some room to cover this town
Speaker 1: hall and then we will get started. So if you
Speaker 1: tune in and you find yourself in the middle of
Speaker 1: the town hall, don't be dismiss because we will be
Speaker 1: doing the show tomorrow. Just a little bit clipped on
Speaker 1: the front end. Okay, all right, let's get back to
Speaker 1: the phones. How about talking to Peter. Hey Peter, welcome home.
Speaker 5: Hi, Good morning Dean, Good morning Dean. Thanks to you
Speaker 5: KFI for all your advice over the years. I just
Speaker 5: moved into an apartment and on the wall with the
Speaker 5: internet cable and an outlet, I've got a power strip
Speaker 5: plugged in with a TV, an external speaker, a firecube,
Speaker 5: motorm rater, a combo, and a clock. And since some
Speaker 5: of those used transformers, I have another power strip going
Speaker 5: from there where I've got a DVD player and a fireplace.
Speaker 5: How do you know how much you're taxing these outlets
Speaker 5: and what can you do about it?
Speaker 1: How do you know? Well, Okay, here's the thing. Your
Speaker 1: outlet is likely a standard fifth amp circuit. Okay. Fifteen
Speaker 1: amps is the amount of power that's kind of like
Speaker 1: it's kind of like describing how much water can flow
Speaker 1: through a pipe. Okay, So a fifteen amp circuit is
Speaker 1: the amperage of the electricity, the force of the electricity
Speaker 1: moving through. Now, the voltage of our electricity here in
Speaker 1: the US is one hundred and twenty okay, and so basically,
Speaker 1: hang on just a second here, basically one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty volts fifteen amps, And the question is how can
Speaker 1: we determine the wattage? Now, the wattage is what is used,
Speaker 1: the amount of energy, that's the quantity used. Okay, so
Speaker 1: if we ask the question how to determine, you guys
Speaker 1: can look this up here. I want to see. I
Speaker 1: want to see how easy this is to find for everybody,
Speaker 1: how to determine wattage on a fifteen amp circuit. I
Speaker 1: just want to I'm curious. I'm curious how clear this
Speaker 1: information is for the average person online. Of course, my
Speaker 1: computer just froze up, so it's not clear at all,
Speaker 1: is it, Tina. Come on now, come on, now, come on,
Speaker 1: give me this, give this to me. Hang on, hang on,
Speaker 1: my friend. We're going to find out for you here.
Speaker 1: I just want to find I'm curious. Sometimes. Somebody asked
Speaker 1: me this week, of some of the questions that you get,
Speaker 1: how much of it is easily accessible? And I said, well,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's not as accessible as you might think. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, really, and here I want to do this demonstration,
Speaker 1: and my computer froze up on me. All right, fine, fine, fine,
Speaker 1: all right, my friend. So here's what it comes down to.
Speaker 1: Number one, you usually don't have to worry about it
Speaker 1: in terms of what you've got going on, because you've
Speaker 1: essentially got electronics hooked up to it. Electronics are very
Speaker 1: low wattage equipment, okay, especially things that use transformers. That's
Speaker 1: just an indication that there isn't a huge power draway. Secondly,
Speaker 1: if you are pulling more energy through a circuit, like
Speaker 1: a fifteen AM circuit, than that circuit wants to handle,
Speaker 1: that's when the fifteen am breaker at the panel pops
Speaker 1: okay and goes off. So the breaker is designed to
Speaker 1: protect the wire, the conductor, the size of the wire conductor,
Speaker 1: which in the case of a fifteen amp circuit is
Speaker 1: a fourteen gauge wire. Now I'm just spewing out numbers
Speaker 1: and people are like, I have no idea what you're
Speaker 1: talking about. It's essentially this. It's a smaller gauge wire.
Speaker 1: It's protected by a appropriately sized breaker, and if that
Speaker 1: wire begins to heat up because there's too much electrical
Speaker 1: draw through it, the breaker goes off, right, And then
Speaker 1: you find yourself you're like, oh, I'm pulling too much
Speaker 1: energy through this circuit. I need to disperse it. And
Speaker 1: that's the easiest way to figure out whether or not
Speaker 1: you're using too much energy or putting too much of
Speaker 1: a burden on one outlet. Now here is the more
Speaker 1: important subject. Okay, the more important subject is that if
Speaker 1: you plug in these tiny, little thin extension cords. Okay,
Speaker 1: now it sounds like you you're actually using an actual
Speaker 1: you know, multiplug adapter, right, yes, Okay, when people plug
Speaker 1: into an outlet a tiny little extension cord, a really
Speaker 1: thin one that those little five dollars extent cords that
Speaker 1: you get at the and then and they have multiple
Speaker 1: outlets on them, and then plug a bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: into those. It's not the circuit that you're overloading, it's
Speaker 1: the extension cord that you're overloading. And sometimes that will
Speaker 1: literally melt down and cause a fire. Not good. But
Speaker 1: if you're using a heavy gauge power strip coming out
Speaker 1: of that outlet and then dispersing the power from the
Speaker 1: power strip, the power strip itself also has a little
Speaker 1: breaker device on it. So the point is, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: worry about it. I wouldn't worry about it unless you
Speaker 1: see the thing dropping constantly or not. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you the result of the search and whether it's
Speaker 1: user friendly as soon as my computer comes back online.
Speaker 1: But Peter, that's the answer. You have got breakers tech
Speaker 1: those circuits, and you're not going to open to it.
Speaker 5: All right, thanks Teine.
Speaker 1: All Right, my friend, stay listening because as soon as
Speaker 1: my computer comes back, I'm going to tell you the
Speaker 1: result of a of such a search. Until then, let's
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