I'll expand - slightly off topic on the N324, but the context for my question will be clearer!
I live in one of the tallest residential buildings in the world and it is quite modern in terms of all infrastructre. It uses 220v power.
I'm running the studio on a single 13amp breaker out of 1 socket star formation setup on Furman conditioners.
I have around 120U of gear & synths and I'm at about 7-8 amps with everything going full whack, but everything is never all on together.
The tripping has been happening on the main board that supplys one side of our entire floor which is in the hallway - which means I've taken out 4 neighbours apartments - maintenance team have to be sent up to flip it back on as access is restricted to the panels. I've kept hidden while it happens - once I had the luxury of blaming a thunderstorm which was going on and called in the "power disruption"myself. If they came in, they might thing I was a spy or perhaps running some experiments that could put the state at risk, so it's best I avoid attention as they wouldn't be capable of understanding what they were seeing and would likely cause a bunch of problems for me out of ignorance.
"Shutdown" has only happened 3 times - those 3 times were the 3 times I turned on large 110v step down convertors (twice a 750w rated and once a 3000w rated) - so we're talking about devices with large transformers. I went without my 110v gear for over 6 months aprehensive of those transformers and I eventually sold them both and had nothing.
Clearly there's some sort of surge going on that causes an issue at power on.
I eventually replaced those step downs with a bunch of smaller 45w rated for individual units to get around that- I've only got 6 X 110v units.
But now I'm apprehensive about large transformers - it's like Large Transformer PTSD or something - and the N324 has a 4KG transformer !!
I'm trying to stay off the radar as I don't want issues from the management company.
I'm not allowed to make any alterations to the supply inside or outside the apartment without getting about 7 million levels of approval and it would never go through in the end - it's basically a no go.
All is fine in the studio with power etc - but now I've got this sweet rack with 14 channels of Telefunken & Neumann DI's and I wanna turn it on so bad and get my makeup gain live - I'm just apprehensive and trying to ensure I don't have issues.
I can solder patchbays and do some basic recapping with instruction, but I basically haven't a clue what is going on beyond that - thus I've no idea if this is an issue or not given where I am.
Will it blow up the entire building ?