it's not the video game setup that caused it--just used a kill-a-watt to see how much it consumes, and with the PS3 and TV turned on (along with all the other stuff plugged in in standby), it only uses 1.47 amps on a 15 amp circuit
(and with everything turned off, it consumes 25 watts of idle power... oof. i expect that's mostly the power supplies for the genesis and snes. i wonder if you can get aftermarket psus that are better at that)
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@Felthry pretty sure especially the early PS3s have way too high standby current
@noiob Hm, I would have thought the systems from the 90s would be worse, but I didn't actually check
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the lights in the room are also on the same circuit but they're LED lights and shouldn't take that much power (also can't measure them because of the fact that they're not plugged into an outlet and i don't feel like messing around inside the panel)
i'm not sure why the breaker tripped, honestly.
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