Want to move to all 208V for server racks

Sat Dec 4 00:38:35 UTC 2010

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Stange" <kevin at steadfast.net>
>
> > People are still feeding their gear with AC? Save on PS inefficiency,
> > and feed direct 12/5vDC to the servers. Save space, save power,
> > save cooling.
> 
> If you're already in a datacenter, getting 208V AC from an existing AC
> infrastructure is a lot easier, cheaper, and sometimes more plausible
> than building a DC plant. If you have your own facility, it's a
> different story, but if you do colo, you probably have more customers
> expecting AC than DC, so you'll at least need to maintain both
> infrastructure.

It *is* Friday night, Kevin.  :-)

He said 12/5VDC, not -48.  

Cheers,
-- jra