ot topic not really pictures of a wire chase

[philiparcario]

My home has the computer room over the garage.. since the t-storm of thur came the same day I grabbed two nice refurbished ups units from APC. I needed to figure away to get the ups unit's power to the computer room. Cutting a hole in the floor is the obvious part making it look pretty is more work. first photo is the chase.. it is 2 toilet bowl flanges and a cardboard tube.

[arlis_1957@yahoo.com]

clever. should come in handy if you ever need to flush the harddrive.

[evilskillit]

I was going to make a core dump joke but I think Arlis beat me to the toilet humor.

[philiparcario]

here it is installed from above. still a mess but getting there

[philiparcario]

view from garage.

[christianb]

Uh, you sure this is permissible by the fire code? I thought you could only run low voltage wire this way.

Also, what kind of UPS units did you buy and why couldn't you just put one "in" the room?

[philiparcario]

here are the two refurbished ups units from apc. the smaller unit on the bottom shelf is a power cleaner..

the taller unit on the upper shelf weighs 75 pounds and put 1000 watts out. it feeds the power conditioner/cleaner below it. the thin unit on the very top weighs 65 pounds.. for now I use it to feed the hot water unit just to the right .

I had to rebuild the shelf for weight and depth those 3 brackets are rated for a total of 1500 pounds. The power conditioner was from newegg dirt cheap thanks to charile laub finding and post the sale. the top two are from a refurbisher in Buffalo NY he has a Canada address also. less then half price . this was a fast job to install what I like is I have room for more wires..


It also uses 3 inch pvc pipe this means you can use long pieces of pvc to do a chase for later. total cost for the two flanges $18.00 the 3 inch card board tube was free. but a 8 foot piece of 3 inch pvc is low cost.

[philiparcario]

Uh, you sure this is permissible by the fire code? I thought you could only run low voltage wire this way.

Also, what kind of UPS units did you buy and why couldn't you just put one "in" the room?

yes it fits code. the power cord is a standard 12 gauge extension power cord. the hole is not sealed so it is no longer inwall. same as running an extension cord from first to second floor of your home down the stairs.

the opening is permanent. But the power cord is not.

[marvin]

Looks like a rather crude DIY flanged port with "deluxe" chrome bezel

[christianb]

yes it fits code. the power cord is a standard 12 gauge extension power cord. the hole is not sealed so it is no longer inwall. same as running an extension cord from first to second floor of your home down the stairs.

the opening is permanent. But the power cord is not.

I'm not questioning you, I just don't want something to ever happen to your house and you come to find out it isn't.

I did a lot of research before buying my in-wall touch LCD for my whole house audio system and did a ton of reading on fire codes etc. Extension cords are only allowed for temporary useage. I don't think having a hole in your house to run one constitutes as temporary, but do whatchu gotsta do.

[donprice]

If you can unplug it and pull out the extension cord in a matter of seconds without destroying anything, I would call it temporary.

[philiparcario]

If you can unplug it and pull out the extension cord in a matter of seconds without destroying anything, I would call it temporary.

bingo

[philiparcario]

I also have non obstructed access to both ends of the extension cord.