[57373] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Fri Apr 4 20:10:33 2003
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 17:09:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030404195058.01b23c68@mail.amaranth.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Daniel Senie wrote:
> I suspect, though I've never seen it done, that it'd be possible to set up
> a gas genset with both a pressurized tank of fuel and a connection to the
> mains, with valves to switch between.
Yes, that's the way it's normally done. The input at the carburetor is
valved based upon the pressure on the utility-line side.
-Bill
