[114757] in North American Network Operators' Group
Why choose 120 volts?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Tue May 26 15:39:26 2009
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 12:39:10 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I have a pure curiosity question for the NANOG crowd here. If you run
your facility/datacenter/cage/rack on 120 volts, why?
I've been running my facility at 208 for years because I can get away
with lower amperage circuits. I'm curious about the reasons for using
high-amp 120 volt circuits to drive racks of equipment instead of
low-amp 208 or 240 volt circuits.
~Seth
