[164056] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PDU recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Bailey)
Mon Jun 24 14:52:12 2013
From: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
To: Ryan - Lists <rlambert.lists@gmail.com>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Nilsson?=
<mansaxel@besserwisser.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:51:40 +0000
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Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We seem to always get calls from uplogix.. Check them out if you are consid=
ering managing pdu's etc. Their gear is pretty stout, and they have good to=
great support.
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From: Ryan - Lists <rlambert.lists@gmail.com>
Date: 06/24/2013 11:43 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: M=E5ns Nilsson <mansaxel@besserwisser.org>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: PDU recommendations
Does anyone on list have experience with the APC AP7920 switched rack PDU, =
or any of the horizontal rack mountables with management? We're looking at =
these for our remote sites.
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On Jun 24, 2013, at 6:10 AM, M=E5ns Nilsson <mansaxel@besserwisser.org> wro=
te:
> Subject: Re: PDU recommendations Date: Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 09:32:00PM -0=
400 Quoting shawn wilson (ag4ve.us@gmail.com):
>> So, that's not a very good endorsement :)
>>
>> Idk why you'd use a fuse in a PDU.
>
> MCB units age. Especially with vibration. A 10A MCB becomes a 9A MCB af=
ter some miles.
>
> Fuses don't.
>
> MCB units are good at protecting people since they trip quickly and aggre=
ssively.
>
> Fuses tend to linger before blowing, and thus are comparatively bad at pr=
otecting
> people (longer shock) but better at protecting infrastructure (surge
> and switch-on-transient resistance).
>
> --
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