Electrical query

Tachyon · 2 Apr 2006 at 18:12

I'm sure this was posted a while back but I couldn't find it. Anyways, I had a bit of a reshuffle with electrical items in the house here and unfortunately due to a poor socket layout in the room I've had to do this:

Not having any clue on the can/can'ts of electrical loads, is that too much for one socket or will one socket happily support all my equipment?

It's maybe nothing compared to what some folks have running off a socket, but I thought I'd ask if theres a spark in the house who knows what watts/amps/ohms/gigahertz or whatever is used can be plugged in safely.

Tachyon · 2 Apr 2006 at 18:21

OKie dokie, here's a bit more info:

Hi-fi amp says 315w
CRT is a 17", not sure what that equates to.
Printer is a Canon inkjet, again no idea how that rates.
CD player & tuner are standard hi-fi separates, I wouldn't think they would rate too high.

I was thinking if I had my pc (inc monitor) and hi-fi going at the same time, it might add up.

If it doesn't sound too massive then thats a good start

Tachyon · 2 Apr 2006 at 18:24

Just read your post Adam as well, sounds great.

Regarding getting a shock though, theres breakers or something you can buy to cover that sort of thing I think.

Edit: Nzyme, just standard 4 gang ext. leads, no cube adapters in use. I may invest in a surge protector then.

Tachyon · 2 Apr 2006 at 18:28

Thanks for the advice folks, as usual it's apprecited.

Tachyon · 2 Apr 2006 at 18:45

sara said:
Just to make you feel better:

Lol Sara, you haven't half made me feel better, that's some stuff you've got plugged in there.

Tachyon · 2 Apr 2006 at 19:06

Sequoia said:
Probably .... but with unspecified amplification involved, it isn't necessarily the case.

Hifi specs can very misleading. It depends exactly what they mean by that. My main hifi amps are rated at 150w into 8 ohms, and as monobloc amps, there are two of them. EACH has a 3.5KVA transformer. The big brother to these has two 2.5KVA transformers per mono amp, and if you want to drive those hard into tricky loads, household mains isn't adequate ..... let alone a single power point. They want supplies of the order of 400v at 15 amps to drive it.

Now, these are not your standard hifi amps, but it makes the point that even a single high-end amp is capable of drawing down substantial power requirements. On the other hand, many amp manufacturers use misleading claims (like PMPO measurements) to make their products seem, on a spec sheet, more powerful than they are.

Adam_151 is probably right. But if that amp is delivering proper power to hard-to-drive loads, well, .....

Haha Sequoia, just when I thouight it was all hunky dory you go & throw a spanner in the works.

Well, at the minute it isn't driving anything more than a set of Grado headphones. It's an old amp I've had for maybe the guts of 15 years or possibly longer, a Technics SU-A900mkII. I have a set of Mission speakers about the same age that aren't even connected but when they are up & running it's at low volumes, I never push them hard. I'm not sure if that makes any sense regarding the electrical point of view.