How much power to run 100 games?

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Does anyone here know or have a setup this big? A friend from TX asked me the other day and i had no idea what to tell him.
 
ALOT of POWER ... if he's got 100 of these.

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Don't most games have labels on the back showing power consumption?
Depending on the game, as noted above, the power will be different.
Larger 25" vids more than smaller 19" vids. Pins more than vids. Does he have EM games too? What else will be on the circuit(s)?
 
Does anyone here know or have a setup this big? A friend from TX asked me the other day and i had no idea what to tell him.

Not sure why everyone is giving Watts instead of Amps? I guess you could do the math to convert. :D

The average game will take around 2A. Pinball's, maybe a little more.

If you want to be safe, just average it out at 3A per game if you have a lot of pinball or larger games (motors, large monitors, etc...)

So around 300 Amps. You also don't want to exceed 85% of the breakers capacity, so for 20 AMP Circuits you'll want to keep that to around 6 - 8 games per breaker. This will vary based on the games and what they actually take.

Around here, most houses have 200A service, so you would be best to do 400A service if you can.
 
A 200amp, Single phase, 120/240vac yields 48kW, but you're only supposed to design it for 80% of that.

Keep in mind if you consume that much power at one time you'll also need a tremendously sized HVAC system... in Texas.
 
I'm curious, are you planning on having 100 pins and arcade games in a house with 100 people playing them at once? It's not even an issue if only a few are going to be on at one time.
 
I'm curious, are you planning on having 100 pins and arcade games in a house with 100 people playing them at once? It's not even an issue if only a few are going to be on at one time.

Come on man, be honest. If you had 100 games you'd want to turn them all on at once even if you were by yourself!

:D
 
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