Want to move to all 208V for server racks

Jay Nakamura zeusdadog at gmail.com
Thu Dec 2 16:43:17 UTC 2010


To clarify, I was going to have 120v in the cage for temporary stuff
like laptops, crash cart, etc.

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:29 AM, David Hubbard
<dhubbard at dino.hostasaurus.com> wrote:
> We have run into some reasonably recent flat panel LCD's
> not running on 208v; we began having our colo build the
> new cages we order with 208v a few years ago and then
> found we couldn't use one of our crash carts in the newer
> cages until we replaced the monitor.  If you're doing
> colo, some customers may have rack mounted LCD panels
> that could be an issue.  And this was not a power brick
> monitor, straight plug.
>
> David
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jay Nakamura [mailto:zeusdadog at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 10:59 AM
>> To: NANOG
>> Subject: Want to move to all 208V for server racks
>>
>> I really want to move all newly installed internal and customer racks
>> over to all 208v power instead of 120v.  As far as I can remember, I
>> can't remember any server/switch/router or any other equipment that
>> didn't run on 208v AC.  (Other than you may need a different cable)
>> Anyone have any experience where some oddball equipment that couldn't
>> do 208v and regret going 208v?  We won't have any TDM or SONET
>> equipment, all Ethernet switches, routers and servers.  I have control
>> over internal equipment but sometimes customers surprises you.
>>
>>
>>
>
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