I wouldn’t try it on the current kit I have as the PSU is low power to start with and the entire AV set up is configured up to try and minimise the amount of electric used to keep the costs of the UPS down, and a cunning plan for the future to run the entire lot off solar panels) –
if you are going to do this I’d not only make sure there is a good PC power supply but its fed by a UPS with line regulation as fuck knows what UK Power Networks might send down the line especially at peak times. Especially in the East London/S Essex area where responsibility is divided between LPN and EPN (they are still two separate companies) there is some real old flaky infrastructure like 6 600V lines and transformers that were around from just after the war.
if the 230V supply is fluctuating on a high load device with a switchmode PSU there is the chance of much power-related unpleasantness. Though London does now have AC 230V throughout the power quality has not improved all that much from the days of Northmet and is still shared between the houses and the trains… (I moved the pics of Northmet former infrastructure into a separate post).
it also stops all your latest music projects being hosed if a rise in demand around autumn when the weather turns trips a breaker on the HV circuits and puts your entire street into darkness for 15 minutes – though since Sir Li Ka Shing took over UKPN the power quality is better (he has stopped the French blighters putting nuclear stations in our country and then sending the leccy down the channel) there still isn’t always enough leccy to go round at peak times…
