Calculating Power Consumption of Your Audio Gear | Sound Advice

Before you plug in your equipment at a venue, it's essential to understand power consumption. In this video, we explain how to find the power consumption of your devices and calculate how many can be safely connected to a single outlet. Learn about the standard amperage of electrical outlets in the US and how to avoid overloading circuits. This information will help you set up your gear efficiently and prevent potential power issues.

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[stffak]

Boss, you are so far the most knowledgeable guy I have watch video from. I need an advise as I don’t want to put my house of fire nor do I want to put my brand new equipment on fire…. I hope you can help
I have the following equipment:
8x Alto TS415 (2500w peak, 1200 RMS)
4x Alto TS408 (2000w peak, 1000 RMS)
2x Alto TS18S (2500w peak, 1200 RMS)
2x Mac Mah AS118S (2500w peak, 1200 RMS) ~ give or take
4x Vonyx SWM15 (1000w peak, 600 RMS) ~ give or take

All of this is active equipment (no external amplifier, no lilght, no smoke machine or other fancy stuffs). So on the paper I have a decent sound system where I can have several hundreds of people dancing in the field. But my question is: how much power, amperes, etc. do I need? Can I plug all this on a regular country side house electricity? If so do I need to use multiple socket. If I cant then what do I need? An electrivity generator (not sure what the name is in English, it is called groupe electrogene in French ).
Any suggestion is most welcome

[stavroshouiris]

hey I was wondering if someone could help me out here because I'm a bit lost. So I'm trying to figure out how much power a Q1212 consumes

on the manual it says something confusing along the lines of 

Power Consumption 850W
1/8 maximum output power @ 4 Ω

So I'm not sure if it's talking about the input since it sounds like it's referring to the speakers. No where does it mention the amps for the amplifier. Anyone's help would be greatly apreciated