Electricity : how's this work?

[TrixAreForKids]

I'm pretty sure this setup is *okay*, I just wanted to check it by everyone.

This is all off of "one" outlet box / "two" outlets... becuase it's conveneint.
keep in mind that my UPS's are only meant to keep the power on during *flickers*, which rarely happen but disturb me. They are NOT meant to hold all my PC's and monitors on for a few minutes.

#1 outlet:
Straight to Energizer UPS 400VA.
Out from that into very nice APC surge protector.
Off the surge protector are all my modems/routers/switches, and (2) CRT 17'.

#2 outlet:
Straight to APC UPS 500VA.
Out from that into cheaper APC surge protector.
Off the surge protector are (4) computers running 250w.

Not tooo much, but again, all off one outlet 'box' in the wall, so I'm curious if this is a safety hazard. The surge protector on #1 outlet has a 'bar wiring' light, but not sure if that helps anything?!

Thanks so much for your time!

 

[Confused]

From one dual socket in my room, I have had:

1x 19" CRT, 1x 17" CRT
2x computers (both Athlon XP machines)
Printer
cable modem
TV/vcr
guitar amp
5.1 speakers, separate stereo amp and 2 speakers, minidisc deck
xbox


No problems for me 🙂


Confused

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Straight to APC UPS 500VA.
Out from that into cheaper APC surge protector.

NEVER NEVER NEVER daisy chain battery backups together, often you will blow the circuit, one or the other battery's will/can explode or corrode and leak everywhere, or do massive damage to connected hardware.

 

[Analog]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong

Straight to APC UPS 500VA.
Out from that into cheaper APC surge protector.

NEVER NEVER NEVER daisy chain battery backups together, often you will blow the circuit, one or the other battery's will/can explode or corrode and leak everywhere, or do massive damage to connected hardware.

I don't think he's doing that. He's routing the output of the UPS to a surge protector.

 

[Dolemite76]

just a suggestion... you're using the UPSs to protect from overvoltages and brownouts not for data protection and proper shutdown procedure time... you might consider using a line conditioner instead of or in addition to your UPSS on your one outlet box... it will prevent both brownouts and overvoltages on one line... so you don't need the UPSs for each system or you could just leave them... just make sure your power strips are on the same line as the line conditioner... I had similar problems with bad wiring in my house where I'm running three systems simultaneously... when the air conditioner or vaccume cleaner would turn on my monitor would flicker and one time I blew out a power supply on one of my systems cause of this... the line conditioner solved all of these problems, and I have a 500VA UPS connected to each of my systems all running from the same outlet... here's the link for one similar to the one I bought... I've had it for over a year...

http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=67

 

[TrixAreForKids]

Glad to hear this okay.

I'm not daisy chaining anything. I'm just running a surge protector off a UPS, 'cause I want one UPS to be able to hold 4 comps on for miliseconds.

Thanks for the line conditioner suggestion, I'll definatly look at it. Is it pretty much a small UPS and surge protector in one?

 

[Zepper]

You shouldn't put a surge protector on the downstream side of a UPS as sometimes MOVs can fail in a SHORT condition. You should put any aditional surge protection between the wall and the UPS. Use an ordinary power strip on the downstream side of the UPS.
.bh.
:moon:

 

[Geniere]

Unless you or someone altered the wiring or circuit-breakers in the residence, you should be ok safety-wise. If your concerned about drawing excess current from the outlets, you will be limited to the value of the circuit-breaker. It?s likely the wiring is for 15 amps which equates to about 1700 watts (more correctly 1.7kva). So if the load produced by your system is less than that, you?re ok. Don?t forget, there can be up to six more duplex outlets supplied from the same circuit breaker, each may have something plugged into them. Do your best to insure all the components of your system are properly grounded.

Zepper?s suggestion seems the more preferable arrangement to me.

 

[DOSfan]

It has been covered, but I felt I should chime in.

I would be cautious about running that many devices off of one circuit. Simply because there may be more running on that circuit than your set up. (Fot the record, I would not feel comfortable running your set up. That does not make it wrong - it is just my personal views.)

But if you can be certain that there are no other heavy draw devices (Air conditioners - Washer/Dryer - Microwave - Some older refrigerators - etc.) on the same circuit you should be fine.