01
Room and seats
Draw the outline, take out the parts you are not allowed to fill, and see what is honestly left. It is less than you think.
Escape routes · aisles · cash desk
ploynt · a tool for organisers
LAN planner
Draw the hall, take out what you are not allowed to fill, and find out how many people actually fit. The power, the network and the money hang off that same number.
No account. Nothing saved. German interface, I am afraid.
- 80
- seats in the demo plan
- 36.5 kW
- assumed load
- 5
- findings open
Turnhalle Nord · HallenLAN #1
Backbone s1–s2–s3
Escape route · 2.0 m clear
Feed · 4× CEE16 red
Switch s148 ports
Seats placed80
Assumed load36.5 kW
Findings5 open
The interesting question is not whether your hall is big enough. It is what is left of it after the escape routes, the aisles and the table where somebody has to sit and take the money. Usually about half.
Ploynti ·house mascot
Five things it works out for you
Each one reads the same floor plan, so moving a wall changes all five at once.
02
Power
Load, distributors, final circuits, RCDs. And the waste heat everyone forgets. Eighty gaming PCs produce exactly as much heat as eighty gaming PCs.
No discount on physics
03
Network
Ports with headroom, switches on the actual floor plan, and cable runs that go around the escape route rather than across it.
Gaffer tape is not a cable bridge
04
Budget
What it costs, what the tickets have to carry, and the precise head count at which it stops being a loss. That number is larger than optimism suggests.
Break-even · per ticket
05
The check
A list of the things you have not thought about yet. Nobody enjoys this part. It is the useful part.
5 findings in the demo plan
Before you trust a single figure
It is German. So are the numbers.
The planner assumes 230 volts, CEE distributors and 30 milliamp residual current devices, and it takes its minimum escape widths from a German regulation with a name long enough to be its own paragraph.
The method survives the crossing, the figures do not. Every safety value is an editable field, not a number buried in code.
Assumptions · all editable
- 230 V
- mains voltage, three-phase CEE
- 30 mA
- residual current device, per final circuit
- 1.2 m
- minimum escape route width
- 3.2 kW
- load per eight-seat table distributor
Trace the hall
Outline, pillars, doors, the bits that have to stay clear. Metric, on a grid, in about five minutes.
Drop tables and kit
Seat blocks snap to the aisles. Switches and distributors carry their own port and load counts.
Read the verdict
Seats, kilowatts, ports, break-even and the findings list, all recalculated as you move things.
Find out before the weekend
The demo opens a furnished hall you can wreck without consequences.