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Re: Want to move to all 208V for server racks

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonio Querubin)
Thu Dec 2 17:17:48 2010

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 12:17:37 -1000 (HST)
From: Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net>
To: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <op.vm3w16nutfhldh@rbeam.xactional.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Ricky Beam wrote:

> I think they are now a violation of the NEC.  And they were delisted by UL 
> years ago.  They pose a hazard as they will not react fast enough to prevent 
> a fatal shock. (and the only one's I've ever seen were outlawed as the 
> breaker itself was a fire hazard.)

You sure about that?  GFCI breakers as well as their close cousins AFCIs 
are still being sold and bought at hardware stores.

Antonio Querubin
808-545-5282 x3003
e-mail/xmpp:  tony@lava.net


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