shenandoah75
Active Member
1) For those of you with centrally placed equipment, what'd you do for power?
The closet where i'm putting my equipment is currently on same circuit as my living room. I am powering a UPS which powers the elk panel and structured wiring components (low consumption), and had been planning on tying off the same for the AV rack. The circuit is 20 amps and except for maybe a couple of lamps, don't expect much else to be on it.
Biggest consumers i see would be:
whole house amp (somewhere in the 5A vicinity - based on russound's 8 channel consumption as an example)
HT receiver (8 amps using specs of a mid-line denon)
HTPC (9 amps based on 550 watt antec specs)
plus:
the elk, m1xep, switch, media converter, and CD/DVD/VCR/STBs etc at about .5 amps, maybe another 5AMP max
I really don't see me maxing out volume or doing heavy PC use, so i think i'd be more like half load or less - so undr 15A... So i think i'm ok? Or would i run a second circuit just to be safe (or wait to see if i ever trip a breaker)? running a romex won't be the easiest thing, but i could get it over there.
2) Also what you do for power conditioning /backup on your rack? I was looking at APC's J series backups/conditioners but max load appears to be is 1.5KW. Two of these seems like overkill. I guess i could be selective on what goes where with maybe tv/reciever on such a unit , the pc on a standard UPS, and the rest on conditions alone... recommendations (for 1 or 2 circuits)?
thx in advance
-brad
The closet where i'm putting my equipment is currently on same circuit as my living room. I am powering a UPS which powers the elk panel and structured wiring components (low consumption), and had been planning on tying off the same for the AV rack. The circuit is 20 amps and except for maybe a couple of lamps, don't expect much else to be on it.
Biggest consumers i see would be:
whole house amp (somewhere in the 5A vicinity - based on russound's 8 channel consumption as an example)
HT receiver (8 amps using specs of a mid-line denon)
HTPC (9 amps based on 550 watt antec specs)
plus:
the elk, m1xep, switch, media converter, and CD/DVD/VCR/STBs etc at about .5 amps, maybe another 5AMP max
I really don't see me maxing out volume or doing heavy PC use, so i think i'd be more like half load or less - so undr 15A... So i think i'm ok? Or would i run a second circuit just to be safe (or wait to see if i ever trip a breaker)? running a romex won't be the easiest thing, but i could get it over there.
2) Also what you do for power conditioning /backup on your rack? I was looking at APC's J series backups/conditioners but max load appears to be is 1.5KW. Two of these seems like overkill. I guess i could be selective on what goes where with maybe tv/reciever on such a unit , the pc on a standard UPS, and the rest on conditions alone... recommendations (for 1 or 2 circuits)?
thx in advance
-brad