Technical power requirement help

[Punk Stig]

OK fountain of technical knowledge can someone tell me firstly - what the average power consumption of a pinball table is in watts please,
Secondly, does anyone know for sure if a pinball table will comfortably run on a quasi sine wave as opposed to the pure sine wave available from your wall socket?

I live on a boat and can fit a table in but my inverter is a quasi sine wave model, I'd be looking at over £1k to change it to a pure sine and that's not possible ontop of buying a table, it's not all doom and gloom as my generator has a pure sine wave output but this would end up costing quite a bit in petrol to play pinball!

Thanks in advance guys

Punk stig!

 

[Punk Stig]

Forgot to mention I'd be looking at a system 11 game/ early dmd!

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[astyy]

There was some good general info in this recent post
http://www.pinballinfo.com/communit...ty-wall-cabin-pinball-room.30808/#post-138787

 

[Paul]

P=VI
Power (Watts) = Volts X Amps

P=240 x 5 (5A startup surge)

P=1200W (initial Startup power).

This would probably drop to much less once fired up...

 

[lukewells]

Hello!

200-300watts at idle, game dependent

While playing, there will be very brief spikes when a coil is fired (up to 7amps)

You can reduce the power consumption by 25-50watts by replacing the backbox lamps with LED's

 

[Punk Stig]

Cheers guys, as assumed my inverter will cope with that power requirement, led's was already on the cards to reduce power, the important thing now is whether the solenoids will be happy with a quasi sine wave!

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[DRD]

As ever, Luke is bang on the money here.

This is a question that I have been thinking about as I am wondering what my outbuilding wiring will cope with, and what type of breaker to use in the fuse box - as they have different reaction speeds to cope with induction effects

I bought one of these to check it out for around £10 .....

http://www.toolstation.com/shop/p90...43&pkw=&pmt=&gclid=COaVqM6XqckCFQ-3GwodzUkJSQ



It gives power consumption to within 0.1 of a watt. Including minimum, current and peak power. It claims to be accurate within +or- 2%

I had my shadow (all led) and stern world poker tour (all led, with crappy fluorescent backbox light) both plugged into it via a surge protected quad adaptor socket.

With these games both on, my playing one then the other for a while it said that

Peak power consumption was 767.1 watts
Minimum power consumption 167.2 watts
Both games in attract mode consume in aggregate about 230 watts

Plugging into paragon alone, which has all incandescent lighting

Peak power consumption was 409 w
Minimum power consumption was 180 w
In attract mode, power consumption was about 230 w

To "check" it. I tried it on a fan heater that is marked 3 kw. This device read 3219 watts peak power consumption which sounds about right

I know that this thing is bound to have limitations, but it gives something of a real world flavour

 

[Punk Stig]

Well done that man, and thank you, sounds like I'll have to run the engine at the same time so as not to put too much drain on the batteries!

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