[169913] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: L6-20P -> L6-30R
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lamar Owen)
Thu Mar 20 15:40:37 2014
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:40:07 -0400
From: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 03/20/2014 12:27 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> "Think of the children!" I hear the 2017 edition of NFPA 70 (aka NEC)
> may require one to turn off the power to the entire household in order
> to plug in a coffee maker to minimize potential arc flash hazard....
> (just kidding). Gary
ROTFL.....
No, I'll just don my >$700 arc-flash suit (8 cal per sq cm rated) before
making coffee in the morning.....
While I say that somewhat tongue-in-check, arc flash really is serious
business, see the youtube video called 'Donnie's Accident' to see how
serious; I had to have a suit because I am in charge of the power
monitoring for our data centers, and hooking up our Fluke 435 on the
input to our Mitsubish 9900B UPS requires full arc flash protection at
the 8 cal level. I'm glad it's not on our main switchgear, though, as
the 6,000A busses there require 40 cal suits, and those are really
expensive. The smaller feeders don't require the full suit, but I have
made a habit of wearing it any time I make a measurement with the 435,
even on the small 30KVA PDU's, mainly just to make it a habit, since one
wrong move can be very painful.
All to get our actual PUE to do the adjustments on our receptacle costs
for our data centers. (our PUE, depending upon the time of year, runs
between 1.1 and 1.4, by the way).
But that's drifting even farther off-topic.....
