stress testing the desk

[arjepsen]

Hey.
After putting psu's inside my desk, I kinda want to try to stress test it, to see how high the temperatures will go.
So far I've only seen around 0.6 - 1 amp of usage, when I hooked up a power meter on the cable providing mains power to the desk. Anyone know which actions would pull the most power?
(I tried calibrating the faders - it hardly moved above 0.7)

Regards
Anders

[Crash]

Back when I was at the mothership building these things, I had test software used during final testing, one of which lit up every led on the console. I doubt that would pull much juice either though. I'll have to see if I can hunt those discs up and see if they would even still function.

[arjepsen]

Since you were at the mothership....
any educated guess on how many amperes it'll pull when peaking?

[Y-my-R]

Saw the other post with the integrated PSU's. Very impressive and way over my head!

You can turn all the LEDs on from the ProBox menu, if I recall correctly (not in front of the desk right now).

One of my CPU/PSU units had an issue, and turning all the LEDs on, reliably got the desk to freeze up on the bad PSU. Probably because of the power pull. Otherwise, that desk operated normally, and only unpredictably froze up here and there. This gives me the idea, that "all LEDs on" pulls more power than normal operation. I have since replaced the power supply with another used one, and that solved that issue for me.

Not sure how much power it pulls with all the LEDs on, but it's definitely one of the test features in the ProBox menu. I think somewhere in the menu, after pushing the Memory B button.

Good luck, and I hope the stress test will be successful!

[Crash]

Since you were at the mothership....
any educated guess on how many amperes it'll pull when peaking?

I couldn't tell ya. That was not something we were concerned with where I was.