LAN Party and Electrics

[itchy]

NO people! Are you mad ...........

20 X 500watt min = 10000Watts no way on a single ring.

Sod it I will just copy and past........

Common Conversions British Commonwealth and other 240 volt countries

Circuits :
10A * 240V = 2400W and 80% safe usage is 1920W
15A * 240V = 3600W and 80% safe usage is 2880W
25A * 240V = 6000W and 80% safe usage is 4800W
30A * 240V = 7200W and 80% safe usage is 5760W
45A * 240V = 10800w and 80% safe usage is 8640W <<<<<<<<<THIS!

You not going to do it with a normal house main. You will be very close to making it all go pop!

Rule I go by is no more than 3kw a socket and no more than 6kw in total on the socket main.

Cooker is run off seperate circut at 45amp so if you could connect 10 pcs to that circut and 10 to the socket main you will be fine!

Do not run 20 pcs from a single circut main. Also your house will only be 100amp main fuse and thats only 24000watt rated so you need half of that to be safe.

 

[Vanilla]

As above, it does seem a lot.

Got friendly neighbours? Run a power cord from next door to help with some of the load (and bung em a tenner)

 

[Mynight]

I refer thee all to post 3 where it was answered

(I think)

 

[ZG002]

Split across two ring circuits you would be ok, but if you have a 16th edition split load board with the sockets RCD protected by a single RCD you have no chance. As HardwareGeek pointed out. Could really do with a photo of your cu (fuse board)

 

[Beren]

I'd graft some sockets onto a few different rings if it caused a problem... but I have never been big on doing things by the book.

 

[Traffic_Warden]

Also your house will only be 100amp main fuse and thats only 24000watt rated so you need half of that to be safe.

What....

Your saying someone can only use 50A out of their 100A "allowance" because that's the "safe" thing to do?

It's rated for 100A, it can take _99.9999999999999....A_......As soon as it goes over 100A only then will it blow...

He can do 20 monitors and 20 PC's from a domestic supply. Easily. It just depends on how many ring mains he has...

If each "setup" (Monitor + Rig) is equal to 600W, x20, which is 12000w, 53~A... Two ring mains will do this easily.

 

[arknor]

well a kWh is anywhere from 10-15p a hour per kw, so over 12 hours I guess your looking at about £5 at least maybe up to £8 for the 12 hours.

wut? say the average pc uses around 400-500watt under load gaming

400watt at 12 hours is 4.8kw? at 15p a kw....

5x 15p = £0.75 for 12 hours and that's slightly rounded up

 

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btw retarded posts because I'm babysitting for friend and their laptop sucks!
if I try t correct any errors it overwrites instead of pushing the text along lol ..... makes correcting even a slight error a whole post rewrite so ARGHHHHH!

You've never learnt what the "insert" key on the keyboard does have you?

 

[Surveyor]

wut? say the average pc uses around 400-500watt under load gaming

400watt at 12 hours is 4.8kw? at 15p a kw....

5x 15p = £0.75 for 12 hours and that's slightly rounded up

Dimple's question asked about 10 PCs so the total would be a rounded up £7.50 based on your figures.

sja360 estimated £5-£8 depending on the price of the electricity.

 

[arknor]

You've never learnt what the "insert" key on the keyboard does have you?

No, but I'm not pressing it either to turn it on /off at all and it seems to randomly happen.

/emote blames windows 8

actually insert key is doing nothing?

maybe it's a trackpad short cut or something.

I hate not using a mouse

 

[Liampope]

It's rated for 100A, it can take _99.9999999999999....A_......As soon as it goes over 100A only then will it blow...

Well actually no it won't.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Dimple's question asked about 10 PCs so the total would be a rounded up £7.50 based on your figures.

sja360 estimated £5-£8 depending on the price of the electricity.

Thanks

I often wonder how my rock bands, and other bands, don't blow the fuses in pubs when all the gear + 3000 watt PA + lights can all be coming off one socket but I know bugger all about electricity.

 

[Unicorn]

In electrics the best way to work stuff out is assume worst case 24/7

So say your pc's will all draw 600w for 12 hours (probably won't but yeah) 11kw

Your draw is 45a approx..
Id say split it across two 30a mcb's using long extension leads

 

[arknor]

In electrics the best way to work stuff out is assume worst case 24/7

So say your pc's will all draw 600w for 12 hours (probably won't but yeah) 11kw

Your draw is 45a approx..
Id say split it across two 30a mcb's using long extension leads

lol technically if ou had only 2 circuits and needed a 3rd could you wire a multiplug directly to an electric cooker circuit

 

[Unicorn]

lol technically if ou had only 2 circuits and needed a 3rd could you wire a multiplug directly to an electric cooker circuit

I could power all this from my shower circuit back at home.. I wouldn't like but i could ;D

 

[Orionaut]

Thanks

I often wonder how my rock bands, and other bands, don't blow the fuses in pubs when all the gear + 3000 watt PA + lights can all be coming off one socket but I know bugger all about electricity.

Because of peak Vs Average power draw.

A 3Kw PA isn't going to be 3Kw all the time, In fact it is only going to be so briefly at best Otherwise your audience would all be deafened within the first 30 secs of the gig!

The circuit breakers do have a degree of inertia, even very large overloads wont necessarily cause a trip if they are only very brief (There will be a graph out there somewhere!)

(As long as I keep my Z-Pinch experiments within sensible limits I do not blow the 100 amp meter fuse very often! )

 

[arty]

I often wonder how my rock bands, and other bands, don't blow the fuses in pubs when all the gear + 3000 watt PA + lights can all be coming off one socket but I know bugger all about electricity.

I've had numerous power problems in pubs, marquees (admittedly many from generators), hotels and pretty much every non-purpose-built venue you can imagine, including tripping stuff and even blowing actual fuses, not to mention getting a couple of shocks in my time. Am I just unlucky?

 

[Mynight]

Pubs/clubs tend to have the oldest wiring I've ever seen. My first major electric shock was changing a lightbulb in one in reading blew me clean off the top of the bar lol. (Fuse had melted into the datapack lol.

 

[ZG002]

I've had numerous power problems in pubs, marquees (admittedly many from generators), hotels and pretty much every non-purpose-built venue you can imagine, including tripping stuff and even blowing actual fuses, not to mention getting a couple of shocks in my time. Am I just unlucky?

Nah, I spend a year inspecting pubs and clubs. Death traps the lot of them!

 

[Benihana]

Rent a quiet generator for half the load

Not sure if serious.

Thats gonna be noisy, smelly, pricey to run and mainly the power you will get from that is going to be far from 'clean'. Brown-outs, spikes and surges would all be unkind for sensitive PC gear.