Re: Power consumption

Well, I don't know how much a problem this would be in a home environment,
what about that air conditioner you have hooked up to it's own circuit? It
draws about twenty amps when it kicks in...or the heavy duty home vacuum
cleaner or... so I don't think a half dozen videos turned on at once is
going to affect anything very much or we shall have to re-think the entire
house wiring and balancing thereof. Furnace blowers, deep freezers,
fridges, etc. and all sorts of high surge are turning on at random in the
average house with no ill effects (putting on flame-proof clothes and
running for cover)

John :-#)#

Thanks RoDger!

At 12:30 AM 10/13/00, Rodger Boots wrote:
>The surges I was talking about weren't necessarily the video games. I'll give
>you an example: out at the farm one night I asked a friend what he thought
>would happen to the lights in the machine shed when I turned on the radial arm
>saw. He (of course) guessed they would dim. WRONG! They got quite a bit
>brighter. Why? Because they were on the other "phase" and the voltage
>dropped
>in the neutral when the saw was turned on got added to the other phase.
>
>So now, the extreme example. You fire off a dozen or two video games all at
>once on the same side of the neutral. Now what happens to the VCR and TV
>in the
>living room when the line voltage surges to 150 volts (albeit briefly)?
>
>Just something to think about.
>
>
>Clay Cowgill wrote:
>
> > >But seriously, if you are going to wire a room please do yourself a favor
> > >and
> > >try to keep the load balanced about both "phases" of the incoming 240
> > >volts.
> > >Will cost you a little less on power (power company meter is kinder to
> > >balanced
> > >loads, or so I've heard), and keeps surges to a minimum.
> >
> > The audiophile-looneys (sorry if I'm offending any audiophile-looneys out
> > there ;-) are big on balanced power for reducing ground loop hum and noise.
> > (Not *quite* the same as balancing both legs on the 240V service, but it's
> > an interesting idea.) They tend to take 120V in and use a torroid to make
> > two opposite taps each of 60V to run the electronics off of. I know I
> > always seem to get hum out of my video games (Star Wars and Asteroids seem
> > particularly finicky)-- might be interesting to see what one of those
> things
> > would do for it...
> >
> > -Clay
> >
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