[57290] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Lockwood)
Wed Apr 2 18:48:10 2003
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 15:47:40 -0800
From: "Dan Lockwood" <dlockwood@coe.shastalink.k12.ca.us>
To: "Richard Welty" <rwelty@averillpark.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
That issue is something that we talked about. Having never worked with
a generator for a long period of time, I don't have any feel for the
reliability. My question back to you would be, how much battery do you
use?
Thanks for the input!
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Welty [mailto:rwelty@averillpark.net]=20
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 15:43
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 15:37:28 -0800 Dan Lockwood
<dlockwood@coe.shastalink.k12.ca.us> wrote:
> Our current plan is to purchase the UPS with a minimal amount of=20
> battery, approximately 15min worth; just enough to get the generator=20
> running. Is this the better way to go? Or should we consider more=20
> battery?
just how certain are you that your generator is always going to start
within 15 minutes?
richard
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