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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: "They all suck!" Re: UPS failure modes (was: fire at NAC)
It's not crazy, it's just not reasonable. What I mean, of course, is that in a collocation model, where you have customers bringing in computers, it is not reasonable to mandate that they use DC power. You'd have no customers. Which, in turn, may be a benefit, since you wouldn't need the power system in the first place. On Thu, 29 May 2003, Dan Armstrong wrote: > > I agree, of course it is ludicrous to think otherwise. > > It has always bothered me that we rectify AC power to store it in > batteries, then > re-invert it to power AC servers only for them to rectify it again.... > > Dan. > > > "Tom (UnitedLayer)" wrote: > > > > Or we could all take a page from the book of telecom, and run with DC systems. > > > > It'd be nice to be able to tell our customers: > > "Oh hey, you can only use DC power supplies, so you'll need to change out > > all of the power supplies in your 1U's, Sun Boxes/etc" > > > > Yes, I have run an installation of servers that were all DC, and it was > > neat, but hardwiring everything was not an exciting task. It was also hard > > to find people who were experienced with DC. Most sysadmins have never > > worked with DC, and the process of pulling a fuse, unscrewing some > > terminals/etc/etc before working on gear isn't always remembered. > > > > > If only the equipment manufacturers would stop gauging on price for > > > DC equipment/power supplies. > > > > Amen! > > You'd think there might actually be less components in the things :) > -- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, [email protected], latency, Al Reuben -- -- Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net --
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