Dice, I gave Kuros the estimated amount of current we were drawing across each drop cord at the last LAN. Needless to say it was well over the safe limit. High amp rated cables are expensive but we if we continue to use the current scheme we are going to have to use them.
We might get futher if we let the UC know that we are going to need more cables to spread the load or better cables to handle the load.
Also, it might be in the club’s best interest to look at getting a good power tester to rate the AC from the outlet before we plug any computers up. As it stands now, if someone’s computer gets fried, and they got a good lawyer, the club would be paying for any non-warrantied parts. Easy fix for this is a disclaimer as Adam mentioned earlier but fried supplies isn’t a reputation we need pinned on the club.
I’ll get prices and send them to Kuros for debate at the next meeting.