[HacktionLab] Projector

[ben at bristolwireless.net]

Quoting "Mike Harris" <mike at mbharris.co.uk>:

> If it's useful for reference, my currently out of order projector that
> we've used the past two years is 2,500 lumens and was fine in the barn
> in daytime.
>
> We do suffer from over-loading the Barn's power supply at Barn Camp it's
> true.
>
> I think we'll have to have a bit of a power management policy,
> especially when workshops are on and kit is being used for them.
>
> I think last year the combination of umpty-umpt laptops, all possibly
> charging, with an electric tea urn, and electric coffee maker and a
> video projector was a bit much for it all.  Mainly what seems to happen
> is that it trips when things are connected and go into a charging cycle.....
>

Tea Urn and Coffee Maker! It would be good if we could shift these  
tasks to another means of hotness production. I really hadn't twigged  
that was why we were tripping everything last year. I'm now surprised  
we didn't trip the power more often now!

Ta,
==
 From Ben Green
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