satelite tv cabinet power supply

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Hi all, A 36 bed Hotel with Sky in each room, on full occupancy what the current draw likely to be, this is all housed in a steel cabinet that is going to be in a store cupboard and plugged into a socket outlet, there is 30 13A sockets in this tin cabinet to power the digi boxes thoughts any one?
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[Silly Sausage]

As you've not had a reply and I'm not doing anything at the moment, here goes...

According to this...
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=761596
anywhere between 10 & 30W, so, call it 20W, 0.087A per box, 36 boxes makes 3.13 Amps

Absolutely no idea how accurate this is!

 

[the pict]

Well I got a similar figure but some how I thought Naw that cant be right it's not something I am directly involved with but when the maintenance guy said it was going into a 13A outlet I thought well if one digi box at home gets this hot what the hell will 36 be in a tin box in a cupboard be like, basically it was idle curiosity
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[Engineer54]

Completely agree with you on the heat build up aspect of mounting several of these units in a confined space (cabinet)!!! Had similar problems such as this, on many of my past projects, in most cases the solution, was mounting these units in a made for purpose forced cooling air cabinet. Left as it is now, the top few units will last no time at all, followed by the other units over varying periods of time!!!

Another solution, was to mount these units in open side less rack system, in a designed for use room with an over designed air conditioning requirement, ...that seemed to work quite well too....