[114786] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why choose 120 volts?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barney Wolff)
Tue May 26 17:57:28 2009
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 17:56:20 -0400
From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1243370081.13747.55.camel@artoo.vvmedia.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Yes - think of all the nasty partial failure cases that can be eliminated -
each entire datacenter is either up or down. Much simpler!
Getting back to reality, I've watched more than one electrician do a
two-finger liveness test on a 120v circuit, and done it myself. 240v
HURTS, and I've not seen a pro finger it deliberately. But I haven't
actually asked.
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 01:34:41PM -0700, Ray Sanders wrote:
> So when one server fails, all the rest fail too?
> On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 16:29 -0400, Barney Wolff wrote:
> > Doesn't even need non-standard servers - just wire them all in series.
> >
> > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 03:23:46PM -0500, Kurt Anderson wrote:
> > > Why stop there? Grab a 20,000 volt feeder and create a Tesla datacenter.
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Barney Wolff I never met a computer I didn't like.
