Originally Posted by
mdcdesign
I dunno how things are in America, but usually a mains circuit in the UK is a maximum of 30 amps distributed between (sometimes) the entire house, or at the very least one floor of the house. Theoretically it's possible to pull 26 amps of that 30 out of a single double socket; however, flickering lights isn't usually an issue with overloading either a socket or the ring circuit because that'd cause a fuse or circuit breaker to blow.
Sounds more like narrow gauge wire has been used to wire up the sockets, either back to the fusebox - which can be solved by spreading the load between different sockets - or even worse, on a ring main setup which means you'll have to run something off a completely different circuit.
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