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Re: Meeting electrical requirements at district venues

Another idea is for teams to bring in UPS power supplies and use them. (Although it's not ideal, I think it would get the job done since you'd be pulling the amps from the stored energy & the AC power is basically filling it back up). We were running a network closet at school on a 20amp circuit for a while and had 2 of them running 6 large POE network switches and a few servers that totaled 80 amps. It shocked me that the fire marshall never said anything and even more so that the circuit didn't melt (although we were tripping it a few times at the end of the school day when everyone hopped online lol)
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