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| FrizzleFried:
This is a general guide... there are obviously exceptions... 19" Standard Res Raster cab - .9 to 1.2 amps 25" Standard Res Raster cab - 1.2 to 1.8 amps 19" Medium Res Raster cab - 2.0 to 2.2 amps 19" B&W Vector cab - 1.8 amps to 2.1 amps 19" Color Vector cab - 2.0 amps to 2.2 amps 25" Color Vector cab - 2.2 amps to 2.4 amps ...or thereabouts. Keep in mind that games that have force feedback will draw more. Games with more than one monitor will draw more, etc. Pinball machines take from 1.1 amps up to over 3 amps or more depending on the toys and the amount of "action" going on. A standard 27" TV uses about 1 amp... |
| FrizzleFried:
--- Quote from: DJ_Izumi on June 13, 2009, 06:08:17 am ---I'd be more worried about tripping a breaker if your collection reached about 8-10 or more and they were all on the same circut. A 15a fuse or breaker will trip at 1800w load and a 20a fuse or breaker will trip at 2400w. I dunno about arcade cabs, but your average CRT screen in the 27" range can go from maybe 120w-240w each depending on make and model. --- End quote --- 27" TV's run around 1 amp... (100w-120w)... CRT that is... Also, you should plan your electrical circuits so as to not draw more than 80% of the circuits capacity. A 15 amp circuit shouldn't have a constant draw of more than 12 amps (approx 1,200 watts) and a 20 amp circuit shouldn't have a constant draw of more than 16 amps (approx 1,600 watts). You should always leave a little head-room for start-up draw which can double the normal draw. Also, if possible, you should have your gameroom set up so you can turn on each cabinet individually... that prevents over-powering a circuit with the initial start-up of a bunch of cabs at one time. I had 12 cabs running off a single 20amp circuit... it worked but was putting me well in to the 20% buffer... so I added a 2nd circuit and I have no issues at all now with two 20 amp circuits. Also keep in mind the single most power hungry item you may have in your gameroom... portable heater. A portable heater will draw 600 watts on low, 900 watts on medium, and 1200 watts on high. That's right... a single space heater will max out your circuit all by itself...(and you wondered why the lights in your room dim when the heater cycles on, eh?). Even a portable AC can't match the power sucking potential of a heater. A portable AC ususually runs between 7.5 amps and 9 amps... |
| sherbert:
Using a watt meter, my whole machine comes in at just over 200 watts during normal game play. That includes a 27 inch tv, dell pc with ati, 2 hard disks, fluorescent light for marquee, wireless, and logitech z 2300 sound. It all raises to about 230 watts if I jam the sound. |
| daywane:
I got lucky. Brothers Father inlaw was a electrician. He ran 3 circuts to my room. all for just the cost of parts. took us all weekend. about $200.00 we only put 3 outlets per breaker (20 amp) |
| FrizzleFried:
A friend asked what his Centipede would cost to run 24/7 for a month in San Diego. I looked up the current KW/h rate SDG&E is charging and was astonished to find they're 3x what my rate is and 2x the national average. SO, that said, running his Centipede 24/7 for a month would come to about $16.00 for the month... so at the average KW/h cost the same cab would cost about $8.00 a month to run 24/7....here in Idaho it would be about $5.00 a month... |
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