[sudo-discuss] electrical upgrade update

hi folks, last night jake, whitney and i met to go over the electrical plans a bit more. it sounds like the server area is going to need up to 30 amps, so we're talking about having 2 breakers supplying the balcony, plus one for the museum and 3d printing area, plus one going over to power the shop. 230V service will be run at a later stage since we are not currently running any 230V loads on that side, so these are all 115V runs. also, we talked about scrapping the hanging ceiling outlets and just running heavy duty power strips from the 3D printing area and the back wall and protecting them with something like this http://www.cabletiesandmore.com/MediumDutyDOCC.php to drastically simplify things. attached is an incredibly messy sketch, mainly drawn to show the proposed route where we would like to run conduit along the wall, and get confirmation from the group that this is OK with respect to preserving the art on the back wall. the path was chosen to clear the top shelves along the wall, then drop down at a 90 degree vertical curve to provide power at bench (~48" height) and floor level (min 18" off the ground), and make a 90 degree horizontal curve to continue along the bottom of the back wall so as not to impact the mural. whitney has more technical info esp concerning the layout of plugs - we are ready to proceed with purchasing materials tomorrow if there are no objections. cheers, hol