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Re: [89attendees] Mystery Power Outlet

Elwyn Davies <davieseb@scss.tcd.ie> Mon, 03 March 2014 10:54 UTC

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Cc: Ole Jacobsen <olejacobsen@me.com>, "DRAGE, Keith \(Keith\)" <keith.drage@alcatel-lucent.com>, Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>, "89attendees@ietf.org" <89attendees@ietf.org>, Ben Campbell <ben@nostrum.com>
Subject: Re: [89attendees] Mystery Power Outlet
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On 03/03/14 10:45, Adam Roach wrote:
> On 3/3/14 10:27, DRAGE, Keith (Keith) wrote:
>> Way back when I was at college, the power feed for the disco lighting 
>> used to be an ad-hoc arrangement of 2 5A sockets through which we 
>> used to regularly draw 30A, with no sign of them getting hot at all.
>
> I thought I just read an assertion on this thread that the plugs are 
> fused, and an inspection of outlets leads me to believe than many of 
> them are as well. Are the fuses required to actually kick out at some 
> point?
>
> On a side note, I'm a bit in awe that you were drawing on the order of 
> 7 kVA of power for your lighting. That's like 24,000 BTU/hr, expressed 
> almost entirely as heat. You'd raise the temperature of an average 
> 1000 sq.ft. (92 m²) room by 27°F (15°C).
>
> /a
And your point is?  It does wonders for the bar takings!

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