[4143] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-East still no generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Sun Sep 8 06:06:23 1996
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 02:56:13 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>
To: asp@partan.com, rs@bifrost.seastrom.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, nathan@netrail.net
Robert E. Seastrom <rs@bifrost.seastrom.com> wrote:
> From: Andrew Partan <asp@partan.com>
>
> So what are you using? AC or DC? If you are not on DC, I would
> switch. Maybe you would have better luck.
>You took the words right out of my mouth. -48vDC is *so* much cleaner
>and less troublesome than mains AC (or even upsed AC) that I urge all
>my clients to use it for *everything* whenever it's available.
Typically telco setups have about 30min-1hr of AC UPS capacity and
4-6 hrs of 48V battery capacity. Last time i was at MAE-East it
didn't have any backup AC power and a nice DC setup.
BTW, the cheap solution for DC hookup would be using a power inverter.
--vadim
