Power Management, Cable Management

I attached all my outlets to a wooden board along with my phone and DSL stuff and attached it to the wall with two screws.

I know it kinda looks messy, but you should have seen how it looked under my old desk. This is actually nicely managed.

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Luís Fernando says:

Man, u should measure your carbon emissions!!!
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

log (Mirko) says:

This is exactly what I'm planning to do, very well organized.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

unimatrixZxero says:

@Luís I have a power meter on the main plug that goes from the board into the socket. I usually don't use more than 350 W/h when I'm using the PowerMac G5 with both monitors. And the rest of the usual stuff on.
The iBook, dsl-modem, router, and ext HDD on the Airport are allways on.

When I'm only on the MacBook+ext HDD, and the usual DSL/iBook stuff I use about 100W/h.

So there may be a bunch of plugs but I can't use all of the things at once.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

unimatrixZxero says:

@log thx, glad I'm able to be an inspiration.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

Luís Fernando says:

Man, I'm kidding u. Looks pretty impressive. If u ask me, go for some velcro for the finishing of cables and you're home.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

unimatrixZxero says:

@Luís I actually did that. I've tied up a bunch of cables with velcro now it looks a lot neater.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

Ocell says:

Wow, excellent work. I may have to copy you soon. My strips are still on the floor, and now I see why it's always such a mess.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

smperris says:

I see a lot of powerboards, but how many wall outlets are you running all of those from? While I appreciate that not all of these things can be on at the same time, personally I would be worried about overloading individual circuits.

Just curious as my main computer room (which also doubles as my wife's studio/teaching room) only has a single outlet which means a lot of powerboard swapping and no two things can be used at the same time (eg piano and computer).
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

unimatrixZxero says:

@smperris I run that whole board from one wall socket. I just now turned all devices on that are connected and the power meter is giving me a reading of 270W when all devices are on and the three computers are more or less idle (0.2 to 0.3 load average).
I've started folding@home on all machines so they are all on 100% CPU usage, now the meter reads in at about 475W.

Considering a typical vacuum cleaner uses about 1300W that's still a very moderate load on that one socket.

The computers I'm using are a G4-800Mhz iBook, a Core2D MacBook 2GHz, and a dual G5 2Ghz with two 17" TFTs attached. I also have 2 external HDDs running along on an Airport Extreme base station. Other devices would be my DSL-modem, cordless phone base station, 3 powered USB-hubs, an 8 port Ethernet Switch, Logitech Z3 2.1 speakers and chargers for my camera, cellphone and bluetooth headset.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

sallydupont says:

I only have about half this number of cables and assorted stuff but it still annoys me and I love the idea of getting it up off the floor - I keep rolling my chair into the stuff or stretching out my legs and pulling cables out etc. Just one question from a very non handywoman - how are the things attached to the board ? Also, being a bit on the Bree side, would it be possible/practicable to then put up some sort of backboard attached to the back legs of my desk so that I don't even have to see all this ? (My desk is more of a long table really with no sides, front or back)

sally
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

unimatrixZxero says:

I've posted an update here.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

unimatrixZxero says:

@sallydupont

The way the modem, DSL-splitter and phone base station are attached is by screws in the board. Basically the way you hang up a picture. Those three devices have little holes in the back exactly for this. The mulit-sockets are held on via cable ties. I drilled 4 holes into the wood for each socket 2 towards the top and 2 at the bottom. If you look at the full sized picture you'll see what I mean.

If you can't mount it on the back of your desk or on the wall behind your desk you could also attach it to the bottom of your desk.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

SagePixie says:

The zip ties to hold the power cables to the wood is F@<k'n brilliant!

This is awesome!
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

neerajpattni says:

i came to this picture from the link on unclutterer and i think this is a killer idea and will sort out all my wires like this. just one question, i noticed on unclutterer that you had a red chair which i think is from ikea, i was just wondering how confertable it actually is to do work and use the computet whilst on that chair?
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

unimatrixZxero says:

@neerajpattni
Since the desk is also very low. I more or less fitted the height to the IKEA Pöang chair, I find it comfortable. The chair itself gives great lumbar support. I used to have back pains with my old desk with a standard chair, not anymore.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

cabriel.loxley says:

That is one neatly made design. The acid test, I guess, is to try to remove or add one extra cable... But it is really a clever concept. Congrats!
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

Alsterstar says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Decluttered desk, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

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