[114765] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Why choose 120 volts?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Anderson)
Tue May 26 16:24:33 2009
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 15:23:46 -0500
From: "Kurt Anderson" <kurt@honeycomb.net>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Why stop there? Grab a 20,000 volt feeder and create a Tesla datacenter.
Think of all the copper you will save...
-----Original Message-----
From: telmnstr@757.org [mailto:telmnstr@757.org]=20
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 3:16 PM
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Why choose 120 volts?=20
>> Oh, yeah! Nothing sounds like more fun than working in a room full of
>> 480 or 600 delta. I LIKE neutrals. (Sort of like I like continuing to
>> have a functioning heart.)
> Nobody said delta.
If you just run 7200vac into your 1u chinese made peecee servers, then
you=20
can eliminate the space use of the step-down transformer in the
mechanical=20
room.
