Why choose 120 volts?

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Tue May 26 19:39:10 UTC 2009


I have a pure curiosity question for the NANOG crowd here. If you run
your facility/datacenter/cage/rack on 120 volts, why?

I've been running my facility at 208 for years because I can get away
with lower amperage circuits. I'm curious about the reasons for using
high-amp 120 volt circuits to drive racks of equipment instead of
low-amp 208 or 240 volt circuits.

~Seth




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