[169848] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: L6-20P -> L6-30R
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laszlo Hanyecz)
Tue Mar 18 19:49:58 2014
From: Laszlo Hanyecz <laszlo@heliacal.net>
In-Reply-To: <14912255.12071.1395185421254.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 23:49:32 +0000
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
It's temporary unless it works.
-Laszlo
On Mar 18, 2014, at 11:30 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
>=20
>> On 18-Mar-14 17:54, Niels Bakker wrote:
>>> * web@typo.org (Wayne E Bouchard) [Tue 18 Mar 2014, 23:53 CET]:
>>>> I have had to do this at times but it is not strictly allowed by
>>>> codes and not at all recommended.
>>>=20
>>> It's an active fire hazard. The cables aren't rated (=3D built) for
>>> the power draw.
>>=20
>> That's a problem in the other direction, but plugging a 20A device
>> into a 30A feed shouldn't be a hazard at all.
>=20
> Plugging a 20A *PDU* into a 30A receptacle can be dangerous if=20
>=20
> a) there is more than 20A of load plugged into it
> b) it has no breaker, and=20
> c) the cordset is only 12A, which is what you would expect on a 20A =
PDU.
>=20
> Cheers,
> -- jr 'up the voltage' a
> --=20
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