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Originally posted by Fëanor The only thing that can happen is your equipment to turn off if your equipment suck to much watt, the tension might get lower, requiring the amps to increase, which is a bad thing. I mean, the power dissipated by the wires is proportional to the square of it's current. It shouldn't be much of a problem since the distance is small, and still that dissipated heat is not lost at all. But, I'm sure you are more concerned about your equipment : if it starts to turn off, you will know it's too much. And because you are over using the tension, you are more at risk of the low tensions that sometimes happens. And I think the electrical wires can handle more than 5 amps.

before any of this happens the circuit breaker or fuse will trip, if the equipment turns off its most likely due to overheating, and the commonly used term for electrical tension is voltage