The rig-box consumes roughly the same power a Clothes Iron consumes, less than a washing machine. If you
already are using furniture that consume 2500W (or several which together consume this amount of power), then
there shouldn't be any problem.
Something isn't right here.
No iron or washing machine in the US uses 2500W.
In most American homes only three "appliances" use 2500W+ and that would be hot water heater, central air heat pump/AC, and electric clothes dryer and they are almost always run on dedicated 240V circuits for safety. Even if they don't they need a dedicated high current circuit.
The standard "outlet" in US home is NEMA 5-15 which is good for 15A @ 120V. For continually loads "the code" requires no device pull more than 80% of rated power for the circuit. So 2500W on a 120V circuit = 20.83 amps, 20% derate is 26.04 amps. The smallest available circuit would be a 30A @ 120V circuit or 15A @ 240V circuit.
At first I thought this was the BFL "PR" account but it is BFL Engineer. Did the PR people log into the engineer account by mistake?
This isn't trolling I have rewired my home and have two of these ...
So that is enough for 14.4 KW (11.5 KW derated) which is solid safe supply for 4x rig boxes (finding the $120K will be harder
). However most Americans have exactly 1 outlet capable of 240V in their home and it is for the clothes dryer.
There are so little details on the rig box to have information that can't possibly be right is just frustrating.Either:
a) the specs of rig box are wrong and it pulls <2500W
b) it uses multiple power supplies and user is expected to plug each on into a different branch circuit (not just different outlet).
c) your post here is wrong.
d) something I am missing.
So which is it?