2014: Gaming Setup Tour: 44 Systems All Ready to Play (PART 4) 

You've come up with some really good, well thought out ideas, like the Velcro, the extension cords for brick plugs and so on, makes for a very interesting watch. Thanks for taking the time to record and upload these videos!

This is a great video. Looks like you had a lot of fun learning how to set everything up!!

Will you talk about the way you store your games?

Very nice video! Thanks. I look forward to the next one.

Very interesting. Can't wait to do this when I get my place.

This is easily the most critical video to me... I would have not expected 4-6 watts on that many systems. Power's definately something I'm going to have to consider in my buildout. Thanks for making this video.

Nice vid, extremely interesting... (And obviously your game room is insane)

This video is what i needed. thank you man

This is a pretty cool, and clean way of distributing power throughout a massive setup, albeit it is quite a lot to set up. Just a few things to consider with a setup like this. First of all, electricity spikes can be surprisingly dangerous. Electricity can jump open gaps in circuits and even travel through walls in certain instances, like during a lightning strike. So having everything plugged in will you will still not be adequately protected from potential damage during a lightning storm. The best practice would be to unplug everything in those situations. The GFCI will trip on overcurrent but it is not a surge protection feature. Likewise, while I rather like the PS9 for ease of power control and distribution, it offers no power conditioning nor does it have any kind of surge protection. Yeah, it's got that fuse on it but as far as I can tell it's 15A, so if you send 15A to any of those consoles, the damage will likely already have been done. I would plug those units into a Furman power conditioner with surge protection. The way you have it set up is fine for power distribution, but I wouldn't plug anything critical into a setup like that without some kind of beefy surge protection. Personally, for my console setup I'm looking into modding each console with a PicoPSU so that I can power all of the consoles with the same power connection from some kind of single-corded power distribution block similar to a Voodoo Labs pedal power-type device. I only currently have 7 different consoles to power and plan on maybe 9 or 10 at most, and would still want something to control power sent to each individual console, but I'd much rather have one single block with one power cord attached to all of the different consoles via small barrel power connectors, rather than having tons of extension cords and wall warts all over the place. Then it's a matter of figuring out how to connect everything to the TV via component cables. I have some ideas for that, which involve modding at least some of the consoles for RGB using a Genesis 2 9-pin Mini DIN AV output and using HD Retrovision cables, but buying a set of cables for every single console would be prohibitively expensive. Perhaps I could find or build a 9-pin Mini DIN switchbox.

Nice setup!

When is part 5 coming? I love this series of yours, good job!

I only have like 7 systems and I still think that power rack is awesome

Need one of those to save power

Brilliant.

Right now I'm editing Parts 5 and 6. Will probably upload Part 5 on October 18th.

awsome....thanks

This is awesome. Will you also do a video about how you record gameplay? Thank you for sharing.

hello i just have 9 systems at the moment excluding the newer consoles and is there a difference in the technical pro ps s9 vs the ps b9?

How long of extension cords do you have and what is a good price to spend on them without overdoing it.

Ive seen this setup before on websites and people vowing it in all awesome, im trying to find the best setup for multi consoles to be hooked up. My only concern and its an ocd that i cant shake, is to get every system hooked up below the tv to remove the line of sight from controller wires in front of the tv, i noticed this doesnt apply to you but what do you do for that, some systems down even have long controller cords. My setup is 14 systems at the moment. i have them spread across book shelves drilled into the wall with brackets, but ive ran out of room.

Is there a UK version of the Technical Pro power strip things? I can't seem to find anything.

what kind of protection do those rack mount power supply's have for say a power surge.

Do you shut off power to those switches from the wall outlet, when going to bed etc? OR is it OK to have power running from the wall to the switch 24/7, as long as the switches themselves are off...

holy cowwwww

Your setup as described in this video doesn't provide surge protection. GFCI is not a replacement for surge protection, and neither is the fuse in those rack units. The rack fuse protects from internal power spikes, just like blowing a fuse on a circuit breaker. The GFCI outlets protect from grounding the device through your body (ie: dropping a hairdryer in a bath tub). In both of those cases you are protected from a power spike or grounding issue that comes from within your home , but you are not protected from a spike that comes from outside your home, like a lightning strike to the city power grid or something. Now, one saving grace of your system is that each device has it's own power switch, so if there is a spike in the power grid only the devices that happen to be switched on at that instant will be affected. You won't ever have a catastrophic situation where ALL your stuff blows out at least, but still. I'd recommend getting a small surge protector that mounts to the wall outlet and then plugging your rack units into that.

You are a fucking life saver.

yolo, money 4 dayzz

I would be wary of Technical Pro, Pyle, and a lot of these cheap, generic power switchers. I came across a great video where a Technical Pro was opened up, and the wiring was so poor that it could easily catch on fire (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NgfoHJEdg7Q.html ). I would suggest opening one of yours up and reading reviews on this and other comparable brands, it's not pretty. The only rack-mount pdu I found that has individual switches and seems to be of good quality is A-Neutonics, but those are $100 each.

and damn i better go and unplug my xbox

god forbid if you ever move house