1000 watt power supply and going to uni

Depending on the brand of that 1000W PSU, swapping it for a 500W Corsair or something might be more of an upgrade than a downgrade ;).

Blimey are they really mean enough nowadays to put each room in halls on a small MCB?! Gits. I guess it's to stop all that indoor plant growing equipment being used ;)
 
Speaking from experience as I just spent my first year in halls and I had a limit of 1000Watts on any appliance, it should work fine. In my case it didn't but that was due to some faulty wiring which the grounds people helped clear up. Would be surprised if your PC was drawing the full 1KW anyway. Hope this helps.
 
whats uni is this, that you have a silly rule like that, are they going to come and monitor your appliances or are they trying to be eco friendly??? either way i do agree with that power supply being overkill, but at the same time i would take it too the hall with me not worth buying another one unless you know for sure that they are checking and you could just say you did not know and it was a custom system build and then change it when you get there.

Me personally i dont thing that is a big thing, because you can add a lot of appliance in your room and that can still equal more than 1000w watts ie sharing with someone else with another computer who had 850w just like you.....
 
If they mean per appliance (which if possible), they could just have a 3 or 5 amp fuse in every socket.

Woudl be kind of sensible actually, keep all the fire risk items (hair driers etc) out of the rooms and in on place (kitchen or bathroom).
 
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Wouldn't be terribly hard to implement them into the sockets if they wanted to...
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Sure - I guess being a university they could just get the product design department to design a fused socket (since they dont exist), then go through the process of getting them tested and approved to the relavent british standard so they are allowed to be used in electrical installations, then approach a manufacturer to make them, then fit them in the halls :p. Or fit an FCU for each socket I suppose. Still either way would be very costly for little gain and I just doubt it would ever be deemed practical, except possibly during a new build. I could be wrong though. At any rate it would be easily defeated by the electrical savvy student with a screwdriver and a 13A fuse :).
 
Reminds me of my third year uni house. We had individual electric meters in our rooms but electricity in the communal kitchen, halls etc was paid for. We therefore ran everything we could from extension leads from the kitchen/hall/landing and also turned the electric oven on and left it open plus all the electric rings on to heat the place. Bill must have been horrible :) :)
 
Liampope said:
Reminds me of my third year uni house. We had individual electric meters in our rooms but electricity in the communal kitchen, halls etc was paid for. We therefore ran everything we could from extension leads from the kitchen/hall/landing and also turned the electric oven on and left it open plus all the electric rings on to heat the place. Bill must have been horrible :) :)
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Epic mate! Sorry, had to comment on that :p

As for the halls thing, girls will want hair dryers and straighteners, I'm not sure much it will be enforced anyway. As for you PC, it won't ever draw that much power, the PSU simply can supply up to that :)
 
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A 3A or 5A fuse/MCB for each socket would just turn out to be a nightmare, many things can draw more than 3A on startup even if they draw less than 3A when running.

Just stick with your crazy 1kW PSU, you'll be fine. :)
 
Liampope said:
Reminds me of my third year uni house. We had individual electric meters in our rooms but electricity in the communal kitchen, halls etc was paid for. We therefore ran everything we could from extension leads from the kitchen/hall/landing and also turned the electric oven on and left it open plus all the electric rings on to heat the place. Bill must have been horrible :) :)
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That's pure genius :D
 
When I was in halls last year, they had a Circuit breaker that all my rooms electricily ran through (not sure what the limit was though), I never tripped it, although a friend tripped his when he had his PC & speakers on, and then turned his laser pinter on :s nothing a little bit of duct tape couldn't fix... Just make sure it's not stuck on if someone comes to inspect your room :p
 
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