Electronics

Four phone chargers running watts and starting watts

Use these values as a planning range only. The conservative default for four phone chargers is 40 W running and 40 W starting.

Load typeLowDefaultHigh
Running watts20 W40 W80 W
Starting watts20 W40 W80 W

Source note

USB charger labels vary; default assumes several fast chargers in use at once.

Source reference

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