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House Power Supply

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Joecomputerdude

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Ok, I just bought a house. I am crazy.

Anyway...

Can i run a power wire from my circuit breaker box, to a UPS/Backup Power Supply, and then up to my computers? I'm planning on running romex/homewire to three rooms on the second floor of my house as to have three plugs which are GFIC'ed at the breaker box, and line conditioned before they hit the wall, can i then put the backup power supply "hardwired" between the plugs and the box?

Anyone ever done anything like this?

~JR
 
Probably easier to have the UPS in the room with the computers, and your upstairs is probably a safer environment for the UPS to operate in. Basements tend to get cold, moist, etc.

If you really want to, you can just make cables with male/female connections on one end, and loose wires on the other. The loose/female cable goes from the breaker to UPS, and the male/loose cable goes from the UPS through the wall to your outlet.

You would have to make sure that you don't overload the UPS with whatever you plug in to that outlet, since most are not rated for high wattages. As long as you keep it to just the computers, you would be ok.

It seems like a lot of effort for no real performance gain to me. Having a separate, smaller UPS for each computer might work better if they are in separate rooms. I wouldn't recommend providing power to multiple rooms off of one breaker, usually there is a breaker for each room, if not each circuit in each room.
 
the upstairs consists of four rooms and a bathroom. The bathroom has its own circuit. The master bedroom has its own circuit. The lighting in the master bedroom and the other three rooms are on the same circuit. The outlets in the other three rooms are on the same circuit, except that there are only 6 plugs total for the three rooms. My intent is to have a seperate circuit line that is denoted by a different color single plug in each of the bedrooms that is dedicated to computer hardware only. I've done a little research into this, and found that options for what i want to do exist, except that it would be more cost effective to put the UPS's next to the computer, as a 5 computer UPS machine would cost roughly $3k.
 
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