ok, thanks
I'll give that a try
mleku
it depends on how close to amperage capacity they are
a lot of modern electrical appliances have very sharp bursts that will for sure increase the chances of the switch overloading and flipping off
but i'd be looking at what is actually in operation when the circuit trips, i had this happen last year with a washing machine several times, somewhere inside it there was something creating an earth bridge when the current in the circuit was high enough
my advice is to do an elimination test, turn everything off, then put on the miners, then one by one add other devices until you flip the switch and the likely suspect is one of the ones you turn on later
it's more likely you have a ground fault than overload if the capacity is definitely way under the switch rating
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yeah, when i say "turn off" i mean unplug also because ground/earth faults can happen without the device being on, though almost everything these days is always running a power managing circuit
but the main point is that if the device has an earth fault the surge on the active/passive lines to the earth may have a short circuit that just requires sufficient current on the line, if you see what i mean
when my landlady's gopher figured this out after the third time being called in due to a main power safety switch going off he told me to unplug everything and then plug stuff in one by one and as soon as i plugged the washing machine BAM out it went
at first it wasn't every time, usually had to have a high load on the power circuit, but when it finally ded it was just by being plugged in at all