I have just finished a basement room that has 3 outlets fed by one line from the breaker in the fuse box. I have a sump pump plugged into one of the outlets and the rest will be computer hardware. All computer hardware will be on fairly high quality APC surge protectors. When the sump pump kicks on for its few seconds, I can detect a slight dimming of the lights - but then there is a light dimming when the heat or AC kicks on, and its on a separate breaker...
What I'm wondering is whether or not there is danger to the computers in having them on the same breaker as the sump pump. It's not easy for me to set it otherwise. I've not tripped the breaker in this setup as yet.
And as a side note - I have 6-7 lights in the room (lots of light!) using lots of low-wattage (40 watt maybe) bulbs - do they draw much power as far as going towards tripping the breaker for the room?
Thanks.
bp