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If you want to run 5 incubators on a single electrical circuit which supplies 120 V at 30 A?

You want to run 5 incubators on a single electrical circuit which supplies 120 V at 30 A. Each incubator, on average runs at 800 V and 1 A. Does this circut have enough power to run 5 incubators simultaneously?

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1. i won't give you the answer but........ break it all down to watts....... watts= amps X volts (P=I*E)..... and see how the watts add up
2. are you sure it's 800 volts? AC or DC? In any case, you need special 800 volts supplies for each. That amounts to 800 watts (800*1) for each, or a total of 4000 watts, plus losses in the power supplies, so you need about 5000 watts. A 120v 30a circuit can supply 3600 watts. So you are short. But look at the 800 volt supplies, they may need 240 volts. Also, medical equipment has a set of wiring rules all it's own, and I'm not familiar with them. .
3. Maximum power available (w) = supply voltage (V) x maximum current available (A) You can easily calculate, in the same way, power consumed by each incubator. Multiply that by 5 and see if it is more or less than the power available. But I have a lot of difficulty trying to see what kind of situation this question could be describing. what matters is not the average demand of the incubator, but the peak demand, since they might all happen to peak at the same time. Besides, 800 V is unrealistically high, and in addition electrical apparatus, unless you use a transformer, is designed to run at the same voltage as the power supply, and I can't imagine why anything as straightforward as an incubator would be different.