[103239] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: rack power question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sun Mar 23 14:31:31 2008
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
Date: 23 Mar 2008 18:29:28 +0000
In-Reply-To: <p06240803c40c448c9d17@[192.168.3.76]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
jcurran@mail.com (John Curran) writes:
> Also, you're still going to want to size the power drop so that
> the measured load won't exceed 80% capacity due to code.
that's true of output breakers, panel busbars, and wire. on the other
hand, transformers (e.g., 480->208 or 12K->480) are rated at 100%, as
are input breakers and of course generators.
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Paul Vixie
