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Board Hardware
Re: getting enough power from a normal house electrical system!
by
aurel57
on 22/08/2014, 08:44:21 UTC
Here's what I did with my setup. It's a little different situation because I have a 200A main breaker box with plenty of room.

Here is the new 60A 220V breaker added to my main box with a 6awg 3 conductor wire leading to my sub panel:


Here is my sub panel. I decided to go with 15A 110V breakers with a single breaker per 1000-1300W power supply. I used 14 awg nema13 power cords and cut them off to wire them directly to the breakers, thus saving money on recepticals, outlets, boxes, condutit, etc. I checked with a couple power guys and everything seems to still meet code.



Here is the box all covered up. The big 'breaker' with the white label is actually a whole home surge protector. I didn't want to waste my money on PDUs or individual surge protectors so this was a good solution for everything on the sub box.



Here's the whole cabinet. Obviously this is a little easier to do in a cage but could pretty easily be mounted on a wall next to your shelf-type setup.




Nice set up!