RE: Power consumption

Got any pictures online of the basement? :))

-A

At 05:57 AM 10/11/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Harry, and everyone else,
>
>Almost every game I've ever seen says it draws 3A. When I wired up my
>basement arcade "Joel's Penny Arcade" (my wife's name is Penny -- how
>convenient!) I brought 20 amp service to clusters of three dual outlets. My
>rule is, I can plug exactly two machines into each dual receptacle, but not
>more. So, on my 20 amp line, I'll never draw more than 18 amps if I chose
>to have all 6 machines powered up simultaneously. I was reasonably
>comfortable with the 10% margin of safety on top of the margin that's
>already built into the ratings for the wire. I put outlets every 4 feet of
>wall space so that with the machines against the wall, I do not have to run
>wires all over the place. It gives a very straight shot from the machine to
>the wall. Yes, that's a lot of outlets to outfit the arcade, I used 15.
>And given the geometry of the room, I'll never be able to violate my power
>consumption rule. In all, I ran 120 amp service to the arcade, 100 amps for
>the games, and 20 amps for the lighting. I think the only problem with this
>approach was that all those outlets slowed me down when I was putting up the
>wall board. You have to cut out holes for all the outlet boxes.
>
>It was worth it though. The arcade has been complete since January, and
>when I got to power up all my games at once for the first time ever, it was
>cool.
>
>Joel-
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Harry Collins [mailto:bp100a@hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 9:36 PM
> > To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
> > Subject: VECTOR: Power consumption
> >
> >
> > to all:
> >
> > does anyone have some figures for how much current (or watts)
> > a "typical"
> > game machine consumes? Some typical and worst case values
> > would be helpful.
> > I'm trying to wire my basement arcade and need some idea as
> > to how many
> > machines I can hang on a 20 amp circuit.
> >
> > /harry
> >
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Received on Wed Oct 11 11:41:20 2000