[169880] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: L6-20P -> L6-30R
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Wed Mar 19 13:31:27 2014
In-Reply-To: <5116905.12125.1395249499718.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 13:26:54 -0400
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
>> From: "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>
>> Yet an 18 awg PC power cable is perfectly safe when plugged in to a
>> 5-20R on a circuit with a 20 amp breaker. Get real man.
>
> A PC isn't a power distribution device.
There are no power cords coming from the power supply that the PC
power cable plugs in to?
>> The modification cancels the UL certification. If you have an external
>> requirement to use only UL certified components then you can't make
>> any modifications no matter how obviously safe they are.
>
> UL doesn't "certify" items. It "lists" them.
http://www.ul.com/global/eng/pages/solutions/services/certification/
>> By the way, you either don't have that requirement or you're breaking
>> it. Your custom network cables are not UL certified.
>
> Network cables don't carry power.
The 802.3af voip phone on my desk must be powered by magic.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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