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Re: MAE-East still no generator

  • From: Patrick J. Chicas
  • Date: Sun Sep 08 02:19:33 1996

On Sun, 8 Sep 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:

> DC power is provided at all MFS facilities I'm aware of; the rub is
> that most of our gear is AC.  Does anyone know of inverters that take
> MFS's -48dc (with what I'm told is 'positive-ground' power) and convert
> it to 110vac?  If not, we're probably going to have to build our own
> battery rack and/or stick a generator on the roof at one of our MFS
> colo sites.

Lorian Power Systems, Lorain OH. makes fine DC-AC inverters. I have 2 
10kva boxes in my shop. Turn 'em on and forget about it. They make 
smaller ones down to 1.5kva. Watch MFS's power surcharges though.

> Avi
> 


 Patrick J. Chicas
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