> Subject: RE: Why choose 120 volts? > Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 15:23:46 -0500 > From: "Kurt Anderson" <k...@honeycomb.net> > To: <nanog@nanog.org> > > Why stop there? Grab a 20,000 volt feeder and create a Tesla > datacenter. Think of all the copper you will save...
Boy! This thread went south in a hurry! I about died laughing. > > -----Original Message----- > From: telmn...@757.org [mailto:telmn...@757.org] > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 3:16 PM > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: RE: Why choose 120 volts? > > >> Oh, yeah! Nothing sounds like more fun than working in a room full of > >> 480 or 600 delta. I LIKE neutrals. (Sort of like I like continuing to > >> have a functioning heart.) > > Nobody said delta. > > If you just run 7200vac into your 1u chinese made peecee servers, then > you > can eliminate the space use of the step-down transformer in the > mechanical > room. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Hicks | Principal Systems Engineer | Direct: 408.569.7928 People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf -- George Orwell The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton
