I'm not very knowledgable about EE so I apologize if some of my terminology is off. At work, I need to set-up a bunch of (100+) wireless routers for a test farm and I'm trying to figure out what kind of power strips to use to power them all up.
On the power supplies, I'd say the average amps is between 1 – 1.5. Most consumer-grade power strips for 120v top out at 15 amps. I'm trying to maximize how many routers I can power with each strip. Is there any way to guesstimate the amps vs. the figure that's stated on the power supply?
The routers will most likely have their wireless radio turned off and will be mostly doing general processing and read/write stuff.
Massive thanks!
edit: There are 20A power strips also, but it's still fairly restrictive.
Best Answer
Are you sure your routers take 1.5 amps at 120v? It seems far more likely to me that they use 1.5 amps at 12v or less, which means your AC power strips only have to supply say 0.2amps per router.