[57362] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Fri Apr 4 18:59:23 2003
From: "Matthew Kaufman" <matthew@eeph.com>
To: "'Bill Woodcock'" <woody@pch.net>,
"'David Lesher'" <wb8foz@nrk.com>
Cc: "'nanog list'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 15:58:49 -0800
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0304041548140.10462-100000@paixhost.pch.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I'm in Santa Cruz County. Since I've been here, natural gas has been off =
for
multiple days in a row twice. Once because of an earthquake, the second =
time
because a winter storm put a lot of water in a hillside and the slide
severed the (only) high pressure gas feed for the county.
In both cases, electricity wasn't stable either. So for the last =
datacenter
I built, I went with diesel.
I've also been told, though I don't know how true it is, that diesel
generators can go longer between service intervals, though for a =
datacenter
I wouldn't skimp on routine maintenance anyway.
Matthew Kaufman
matthew@eeph.com <-home
mkaufman@dsl.net <-work
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On=20
> Behalf Of Bill Woodcock
> ...
> Why? In what case is it still not preferable to diesel? The=20
> _only_ reason I've ever heard an informed person state for=20
> going with diesel is that the fire marshal wouldn't allow=20
> them to store anything else.
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> -Bill
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