165 Halsey recurring power issues

Mon Oct 23 23:39:48 UTC 2023

On 10/23/23 15:56, Eric Kuhnke wrote:

> In this case their use of the incorrectly-described A/B was probably 
> exclusively to handle the (not extremely rare) instances of rackmount 
> server power supply failures, to give each 1U or 2U size machine, or 
> rack of blades, two live power supplies with live power feeds. Nothing 
> more complicated than that.

And then inevitably the customer will load the rack with dual supply 
gear to the point that each feed is pulling over 50% of the breaker rating.

When one of the feeds eventually does have an issue, they'll immediately 
pop the breaker on the other one.

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