[106490] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: big DC -48V to AC inverters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Jackson)
Wed Jul 30 20:36:08 2008
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:35:55 -0500
From: "Tim Jackson" <jackson.tim@gmail.com>
To: "Andreas Ott" <andreas@naund.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20080730165448.R26698@naund.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Unipower out of florida.. They can provide scalable inverters for 120
and 208/240. Modular N+1 setups and very flexible..
We have a large 200amp 120vac setup from them. I'd recommend letting
your electrician build a parallel setup instead of relying on their
modules, however...
On 7/30/08, Andreas Ott <andreas@naund.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we are looking into providing power for 'legacy' equipment in a data
> center that is exclusively giving us -48V DC power. The most recent
> thread on this list was about -48V DC modems but in our case I am rather
> looking into inverting on the order of 4 kW per rack from the supplied DC
> into AC equipment. And yes, that's not the most efficient use of power,
> we know it already ;-) .
>
> Does anyone operate devices like this that are capable of 2...4 kW
> power conversion and do you have recommendations, good or bad experience
> to share?
>
> Please reply direct to me and indicate if it's OK to use your answer in
> a summary e-mail back to the list.
>
> Thanks, andreas
> --
> Andreas Ott K6OTT andreas@naund.org
>
>
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