DC power versus AC power

Mon Dec 30 03:09:50 UTC 2002

Absolutely.  Often, there are more than a few hundred amps available.
Remember, many of those switch rooms were built to specs to drive a very
large number of solenoids, relays, etc.  All relatively high-current
devices compared to today's solid state stuff.  Alot of the specs were
never reduced, the rooms just got bigger, and the number of customers.
There's a reason the backbone is multiple copper plates and not just
wire.

Owen

--On Sunday, December 29, 2002 5:40 PM -0800 Scott Granados 
<scott at wworks.net> wrote:

>
> Is 48V DC at the amps present normallyin switch rooms etc enough to cause
> electricucian?  I have seen bad things with wrenches dropped across
> batteries even 12 volt car batteries although in this case it was a large
> battery bank in a submarine but I was curious about the 48V sources in
> switch rooms.
>
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Lesher" <wb8foz at nrk.com>
> To: "nanog list" <nanog at merit.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 4:43 PM
> Subject: Re: DC power versus AC power
>
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>>
>> Unnamed Administration sources reported that Michael Painter said:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > > But, as Stephen already eluded to... Compared with an AC plant
> design, to
>> > me, one of the biggest drawbacks of a DC plant is safety  (I have had
>> > to kick a fellow worker away from the rack before). <<
>> >
>> > What was the worker doing?  Is this 48 VDC?
>>
>> Bet so.
>>
>> And note, it's not just ISP's, of course. I heard that Sprint
>> PCS ha[s,d] a Dallas tech in critical condition and a dead switch
>> after a dropped wrench & resulting fire.
>>
>> In the words of Phil Esterhaus:
>>
>> Let's be careful out there....
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