Power woes

[Dee Dee Sommers]

Hi James,

AWESOME!!!!  Thank you so much!!!!
I will take photos tomorrow.  Everything is mostly right near the computer.
We have a Mac Pro (without looking it up, we installed it in maybe 2009 or 2010.)

Currently we are using 3 Insteon Appliance Modules: 1 module for: 5 hard-wired IR motion sensors in another room; 1 module to turn on power for 2 professional HD Sony cameras (wired, another room); 1 module to turn on all of the audio equipment: 1 large mixer board that also provides phantom power to as many as 4 microphones, and 3 amplifiers.  The mixer board and amplifiers are on the same rack as the computer, etc.; the microphones that are powered by the mixer board are in the other room.*  I need to verify whether the mixer is providing the phantom power to the mics.  I didn’t set it all up, so some of these things I have not thought about until now.

So basically, right now I have 1 power strip with 3 appliance modules which each controls another power strip.

Everything is wired.

There is additional equipment that is always on, so I don’t worry about it (as long as it’s on. ha ha.).  All of the equipment is backed up by the UPS.  We have several power strips running out of the UPS: 1 strip for the 3 Insteon Appliance modules.  Each of those modules each have a power strip plugged in to power-on the components listed above.

Then there is the computer, monitor, a video control board that drives the cameras (always on), one sony camera always on, ethernet hub,…….

It’s really scary. 
… And then I have plans to eventually add some wireless tags with a tag manager to take care of stuff I can’t do unless I am there.   Well okay.  Right now the stuff I would like to fine-tune with the tag managers is just generically handled with events in XTension.  :-)



On Nov 23, 2014, at 8:12 PM, James Sentman <james at sentman.com> wrote:

> Dee Dee, you're doing some interesting stuff but I wonder if there isn't a better solution to some of this that we can find you.
> 
> How many devices are you powering on and off this way? Are they all close by the computer? There are some power strips that have individual controllable outlets that we might experiment with as well as some other similar things if they are all within a USB cord range of the computer. Tell us more about how many units and what they are doing and where they are.
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>> On Nov 23, 2014, at 6:01 PM, Dee Dee Sommers <deesquared at mac.com> wrote:
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>> Well heeded.  Thank you so much for your wisdom and advice!
> 
> Thanks,
> 	James
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