RE: Power consumption

I had 16 games running on two 15amp circuits (5/11) and never had a problem
with the exception that if Sega Super Hang On was tuned on after my Dragon's
Lair - Dragon's Lair would always behave funny until it was reset.

As soon as I powered Hang On before Dragon's Lair - Dragon's Lair was always
fine.

And I powered each machine up individually and I always left the vectors
till last... I don't know why - I just did.

I'm in a new house now and I'd better check the power after reading this
thread. I haven't turned them all on at once yet.

Cheers
MacMan

> ----------
> From: Christopher X. Candreva
> Reply To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
> Sent: Thursday, 12 October 2000 08:22
> To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
> Subject: Re: VECTOR: Power consumption
>
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Josh McCormick wrote:
>
> > The reason I ask is that my older brother was an arcade tech many years
> > ago for Chuck E Cheese. He complained that when the manager would flip
> the
> > breakers to turn on all the games, (as I remember) that the Star Wars
> unit
> > would often blow a diode in the deflection board. It had to be turned
> off
> > and on individually from other games.
>
> Ah -- mised the all at once part. I have four of the nine on a power
> strip
> switch that come on at once, the rest I turn on individually. A large
> number of games turned on all at once will make quite an initial surge
> current. 3-4 is probalby OK, but I would turn all 9 of mine on at once.
>
> Possibly with the Star Wars, due to them all comming on at once, the
> initial
> voltage was low ? Would that cause something to blow ?
>
>
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