[132973] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Want to move to all 208V for server racks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Phillips)
Fri Dec 3 02:14:58 2010
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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 23:08:04 -0800
From: Christopher Phillips <blake@lindenlab.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Jay Nakamura <zeusdadog@gmail.com> wrote:
> I really want to move all newly installed internal and customer racks
> over to all 208v power instead of 120v. As far as I can remember, I
> can't remember any server/switch/router or any other equipment that
> didn't run on 208v AC. (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? We won't have any TDM or SONET
> equipment, all Ethernet switches, routers and servers. I have control
> over internal equipment but sometimes customers surprises you.
>
>
I got burned when I tried to install a DSL modem for OOB access, in our 208v
network racks. The modem only accepted 120v. My choices were too either run
a power cable across the cage to a 120v rack or install a 120v circuit in
the network rack.
Chris.
