Tiki Central / Other Crafts / Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar In-A-Box
Post #801445 by TheLuckyParrot on Fri, Mar 20, 2020 2:05 PM
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Actually, not at all. I single 110v electrical cord is far more than needed. All the electronics run on 3.3v, 5v or 12v. That's battery power! The trick is to keep the grand total contained so that I do not try and do too many things at the same time, and all those "same time" things add up to consuming too many AMPS. And even then, it's not the worry about the amount of AMPS coming out of the wall and blowing a fuse. It's more about consuming too much amperage for the power supply that I am installing inside the system. That power supply is what draws power from the wall outlet. For that we are fine. The power supply only draws 1 AMP, so that's only 1/15th of what is coming out of the wall. But there is a maximum amount of power it can DELIVER to everything. The power supply that I am using can deliver up to 6 AMPS. But the tiny little electronics pieces use so little power that they are measured in "milliamps", or 1,000th of an amp. I am trying to target between 500 milliamps up to 1 full AMP for any single function, and only 1 function will be allowed to run at a time. Thus, worse case I an using only 1/6 of what the power supply can do. And we already know that I am using only 1/15th of what comes out of the wall. There is another factor, WATTS, that I need to take into consideration, too. WATTS are what you commonly know as heat from electricity. I don't want anything getting too hot, either. But, again as with the other calculations, I am waaaay within all safety factors even in worse-case scenarios. If electricity and electronics are not your thing, the whole point of my next project will be to do all that work on behalf of everyone, provide a list of parts that can be purchased independent of me, download some software that I will write (which will be free), and then follow some instructions on how to create your own audio tracks and make your own content and have some fun. You know, since I am locked indoors, I should upload some sample videos of what is coming next as a preview to what I keep hinting at... And, as always, thanks for the feedback!
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