Trying to figure out toal amperage draw for a fluorescent fixture as I have several I want to put on one circuit. The T-8 ballast says .85 amps and there is two 32 watt bulbs. Is the total draw .85 amps or do I have to add the bulb wattage. Joe

I have two issues related to working in circuit breaker panels. Firstly, We were adding circuits to a GE panel. Is it proper to double up grounds and neutrals on the bus bars. There are no available terminals and I noticed that previous work had done this, so I figured it was OK. Grounds were doubled up with other grounds and neutrals were doubled up with neutrals. Secondly, I decided to do this work without disconecting the mains. I have done this before, but not with doubling up on the bus bar. After the work was done, two surge protectors were found to be blown out. I'm trying to understand if I was the cause of this. I did notice when loosening the bus bar terminals that there was some arcing on the neutrals. I suspect, that, at worst, it would just interrupt the circuit. Why would that cause damage to surge protectors. It is my understanding that a surge protector would only fail if hit with a surge in voltage greater than the nominal 110 volts. I could not trace the circuits that I loosened up the bus bar terminals on, so I cannot correlate if the damaged components were on the loosened circuits. Please keep any lectures on working on live panels down to a dull roar. :) I really hate resetting a whole bunch of clocks and VCRs. The bright side is that now there is a separeate circuit for the deep freeze and it won't keep blowing circuits when other things are connected.