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Yeah, you should consider getting a few cans of deoxit and taking the top off the machine, and cleaning all electrical contacts (and giving the S8 a nice clean out and dozens of cycles).
To overdraw a machine by such a large amount, you are only asking for problems (safetys in place, or not). You are involving burden resistors that are sized to the actual output of the machine, so with such a massive draw, it very well might be overloading these (and there IS a small...
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