Enermax Infiniti trips breakers?

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I'm looking at a new PSU, and liking the Enermax Infiniti 650W: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817194022

However one of the reviews mentions this:

If your house/apartment building is farly new (new building code requirement), this PSU will trip your circuit breakers; ARC protection switches as a new building code requirement. It will shut off your room's power.

Now, since its written on the internet, it must be true ;). I can't seem to find more information about this, so I'm wondering if anyone of you [H]'ers know more...thanks in advance!
 
To be honest, I wouldn't listen to anything stated in the newegg user reviews. Thank god you came to a place where people actually know something.
 
I think the only way that thing would trip the circuit breaker is if that power supply is somehow attempting to pull all the power out of the local power plant through the grid, or something else equally ridiculous.

I will be up front and say that I don't really know a great deal about electricity other than I shouldn't play around with it. But for what I do know, I think it's a bit of a ridiculous claim. But if it really is tripping the circuit breakers, I'd have to ask what all is attempting to be operated in that complex at once. My understanding is the circuit breaker trips when too much of a load is put on it. Which means, too many things are trying to pull power from the same circuit. I really don't know what all it would take, but my thinking would be that would mean that either the apartment complex wiring is completely fubared, or you have a LOT of electronic devices operating simultaneously. And I mean A LOT.

But anyone here is welcome to correct me if I am wrong.
 
I had 3 computers all with at least a 500watt PSU in the same room that was all on one circuit, we would blow a fuse once in a while, we found out later that someone placed 20 amp fuses in when the fuse box was rated for 10 and the fuse box leterally melted from the heat of the power draw. This was a older house.

You would think that considering how many electronic devices we use now days that the Building codes would compensate. 20 years ago you wold go into someone Living room and there would be one TV, and one Stereo, in there bedroom you were lucky to find a small Clock radio. that was it for electronics. Now we have a Big Screen TV, 1000watt Serround Sound, Cable/satalite box, DVR, VCR, DVD Recorder, Video game consoles, Home theatere PC, and more and the funny thing is all of it is plugged into a single wall outlet, 2 if your lucky, but there both on the same circuit, and in the bedroom you will find a large TV, VCR/DVD combo, Cable Satalite box,.....I think you get my point, its surprising we dont see a few news stories every night on the news where someone overloaded an outlet and burned there house down! My guess is that it is very possible that building codes are changing, they have to, but I dont see a single computer flipping any breakers!
 
Best thing to do is isolate the plug you want to use for your computer form the other wall outlets in your living room that would all be hooked together, and add a breaker, tie this plug specifically to the new breaker. Now you should be able to even vaccuum in the the room from another outlet while your computer will have no bearing on amp draw from the other electronics in the room.
 
Thanks for the replies. I know that in cases where you have a lot of power being drawn that you can trip the breaker just because of the inreased load, but to me this seemed more like a feature of the PSU or a feature of newer electrical grids that would cause the breakers to trip regardless of the load...hmm...
 
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