Hi,
i run a few different businesses from home and I thought I'd ask around on here before I call another electrician out for a second opinion.
ive just had a seperate consumer unit added as a sub panel from my main 200a breaker to a newly built building on my land which is going to be used as for commercial servers.
I run up to 30 servers at a time each with a 600w power supply. I resell webhosting to small business and a lot of other stuff. I host a lot of VPN servers which get a heck of a lot of traffic so my severs are always busy. Traffic flowing from all over the world.
I called a local electrician out last week to get the electrical installed for the whole warehouse he added all the sockets I needed however what really concerns me is fire safety so I made sure I triple checked with him informing him that in total I could be using 11000 watts and want to make sure I have room to expand aswell.
This is a fully functioning business so i so I know I need a lot of watts to run all this however I'm no electrician.
i checked the width of the cable he used from the consumer unit to the sub panel which is only a couple of meters due to the consumer unit being on my far wall and new outhouse 2m away from the main building.
The width is 13.5mm and after looking around converts to 6mm2 CSA.
is this size cable really enough to be constantly running this many watts?
Im calling out another electrician this week either way to be safe but I figured several opinions on here couldn't hurt
cheers
i run a few different businesses from home and I thought I'd ask around on here before I call another electrician out for a second opinion.
ive just had a seperate consumer unit added as a sub panel from my main 200a breaker to a newly built building on my land which is going to be used as for commercial servers.
I run up to 30 servers at a time each with a 600w power supply. I resell webhosting to small business and a lot of other stuff. I host a lot of VPN servers which get a heck of a lot of traffic so my severs are always busy. Traffic flowing from all over the world.
I called a local electrician out last week to get the electrical installed for the whole warehouse he added all the sockets I needed however what really concerns me is fire safety so I made sure I triple checked with him informing him that in total I could be using 11000 watts and want to make sure I have room to expand aswell.
This is a fully functioning business so i so I know I need a lot of watts to run all this however I'm no electrician.
i checked the width of the cable he used from the consumer unit to the sub panel which is only a couple of meters due to the consumer unit being on my far wall and new outhouse 2m away from the main building.
The width is 13.5mm and after looking around converts to 6mm2 CSA.
is this size cable really enough to be constantly running this many watts?
Im calling out another electrician this week either way to be safe but I figured several opinions on here couldn't hurt
cheers