You see the way of it:}

Making the finished units leaves a LOT of room for situation aware details. Scavenging power strips that use commercial grade outlets seems to have done well for laptop/soldering tables. There's so many outlets per foot of strip depending on which style you get.

One method  might best be laid out as X number of outlets fed by each breaker- with a screamingly obvious paint scheme to show which outlet is powered by which breaker.

If each outlet has a LIGHTED cube tap in it you gain both visual powergood confirm and wear transfers to the "cheap&easy" no tools replaceable  cube tap instead of the strip's hardwires outlet.

OR- we go to a "Good Enough-IS" model where dirt cheap plastic power strips get drill hacked for a low amp breaker&call it Done...


Hehe- Perhaps Sudo develops a Participant Ritual where one desiring to is mentored in making their OWN breaker strip? Hardware Sudo in action might be a punnish meme.

The summary being that when completed- usability of however we do it- becomes nearly effortless joy.

Oren Beck

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On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:02 PM, <hol@gaskill.com> wrote:
i think you have a really good point - it might be a worthy investment to get 3-4 really long (high outlet count + long, heavy gauge cord), high quality power strips w/ something like this to replace the mishmash of different table receptacles we have now and localize outages as much as possible. the line coming into the box in the stage balcony i think is like 100 amps so we have some room to grow, but your suggestion is very practical for our application where we have been doing alot of uncontrolled daisy chaining.

On 2015-01-30 11:32, Oren Beck wrote:

Re: Replace Sudo elec outlets with GFI

I may be able to lower the Drama Levels by suggesting that folks Hardware Hacking on mains voltage use a WAY LOWER amp breaker for their Hackery;

http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/cb-1605/5-amp-push-to-reset-circuit-breaker/1.html [2]

Either shell out a few bucks to buy one& slap it into a power strip... or scavenge a similar/lower rated one from some scrapworthy device. Idea is- the 5er or lower will pop WAY before risking anyone else getting shut down. I had a "test box" with Variac. volt&amp meters and switch selectable breakers from 1/2 to 15 amps for test/hacking and it saved a lot of headaches let alone preventing damages:>

HtH

Oren Beck

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