[132858] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Want to move to all 208V for server racks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Nakamura)
Thu Dec 2 11:53:34 2010
In-Reply-To: <FCD26398C5EDE746BFC47F43EA52A17304E0EA45@dino.ad.hostasaurus.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 11:43:17 -0500
From: Jay Nakamura <zeusdadog@gmail.com>
To: David Hubbard <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
To clarify, I was going to have 120v in the cage for temporary stuff
like laptops, crash cart, etc.
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:29 AM, David Hubbard
<dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com> wrote:
> We have run into some reasonably recent flat panel LCD's
> not running on 208v; we began having our colo build the
> new cages we order with 208v a few years ago and then
> found we couldn't use one of our crash carts in the newer
> cages until we replaced the monitor. =A0If you're doing
> colo, some customers may have rack mounted LCD panels
> that could be an issue. =A0And this was not a power brick
> monitor, straight plug.
>
> David
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jay Nakamura [mailto:zeusdadog@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 10:59 AM
>> To: NANOG
>> Subject: Want to move to all 208V for server racks
>>
>> I really want to move all newly installed internal and customer racks
>> over to all 208v power instead of 120v. =A0As far as I can remember, I
>> can't remember any server/switch/router or any other equipment that
>> didn't run on 208v AC. =A0(Other than you may need a different cable)
>> Anyone have any experience where some oddball equipment that couldn't
>> do 208v and regret going 208v? =A0We won't have any TDM or SONET
>> equipment, all Ethernet switches, routers and servers. =A0I have control
>> over internal equipment but sometimes customers surprises you.
>>
>>
>>
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