Oh man, half a day through and there are four more pages.
I worked a bit on the power distribution of my bench rack I showed its back side on the #teatime channel yesterday:
I ordered an eight-fold 19"/1HE switching panel with IEC outputs for completing the power distribution inside my new rack.
After some metal work it's now located vertically in the back of the rack space for my 1/2 19" instruments. All wiring is done using 0.5m IEC to IEC cords (the pics are of lousy quality but they show the idea..):
Power is now distributed with the shown eight-fold 19"/1HE switching panel and three six-fold multiple socket outlets with individually switchable outlets. That's enough for the rack space available.
I tested a bit what power my bench draws with this switched on:
- all power supplies and the electronic load, drawing 200W power from one of the supplies
- all DMMs
- all counters
- all signal generators
- all soldering/desoldering stations
- crt oscilloscope
- all power meters
- the signature analyser
- the precision voltage/current source
- all lights switched on
This is how it looks like (again crappy photo due to smartphone cam and bad light conditions):
Quick check if there are not too many Watts drawn through the single 1.5mm
2 line coming from the wall outlet:
Ok, there's headroom.