3211: Amperage
| Amperage |
 Title text: Oh, and do you have any tips on how to vacuum up copper that's melted into your carpet? |
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Households usually receive 200 amps (an amount of electricity power) from the utility. Individual circuits often support 15 amps or 20 amps. If one tries to use more power than that from one circuit, the circuit breaker will cut off that circuit. This is annoying, but unwise to bypass.
500 amps is a massive amount of power for a circuit, more than twice what an entire house would use. If you tried to plug in a lamp, everything would start on fire or melt.
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Seems like this would be at least tangentially related to the Cursed Connectors series, although it's just the outlets and cords this time. Zakator (talk) 05:51, 24 February 2026 (UTC)
I would assume that this is related to styropyro's latest video? 142.126.42.193 05:59, 24 February 2026 (UTC)
- Iโll second the comment about the new styropyro video; it seems very likely that it inspired Randall to make this comic and is probably worth a mention. 2607:FB91:829C:47BD:C826:B8DB:5A5E:913A 07:50, 24 February 2026 (UTC)
200 amps is NOT "an amount of electricity power"; The amp is a unit of electrical current, from which power can be derived by multiplying by voltage.2001:8003:7087:E602:3CBE:B25:5BFC:61BD 07:41, 24 February 2026 (UTC)
The current explanation seems to assume that Cueball is aware in advance of some of the problems his scheme is likely to cause, and is trying to forestall them. That seems unlikely - it's Cueball after all. It's far more likely that he has already melted all his wiring (and ruined his carpet), but just considers that a new engineering challenge to overcome. 82.13.184.33 09:28, 24 February 2026 (UTC) Add comment
