Great moments in #homelab ... when you discover the lab isn't on its own electrical circuit but rather shares with a bedroom, hallway, and bathroom, and between your workstation, server, NAS, multiple monitors, the lights for half a floor, the partner's laptop, the various and sundry in the bedroom, that the hair dryer puts said circuit over capacity.
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Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 23:00:25 JST Kit Rhett Aultman -
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Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 00:05:27 JST Kit Rhett Aultman @thundergod97 When it happened yesterday, we assumed a blackout because we kinda live in the woods and deal with flash blackouts and lots of loss of service. I'm kinda surprised that 2 PCs, 3 monitors, a NAS, and a Pi, plus the sundry items on the circuit could load that heavily, so it's possible the bathroom arcfault outlet made the breaker mad or something. The wiring probably made sense in the 1970s when my lab was a bedroom.
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Thor (thundergod97@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 00:05:28 JST Thor @roadriverrail
Oh yeah that's a fun one. I discovered that a few years ago when I plugged in a space heater because I needed some warmth in my office in the middle of winter....BAM. Office dark.Most recently I started discovering just how all over the place the wirig is in our house. My office is split between 3 circuits and shared with other rooms apparently. It is by far the biggest electrical draw in the house. That doesn't include my rack for my homelab down in the utility room.
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Masha Medvednik (scalene@signs.codes)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 20:26:06 JST Masha Medvednik @roadriverrail lol it must be the running theme. Also experiencing some electricity wiri—or rather miswiring that’s causing my digital clock to reset to factory defaults… 😅
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