RE: Why choose 120 volts?

[Gregory Hicks <ghicks () hicks-net net>]

> Subject: RE: Why choose 120 volts? 
> Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 15:23:46 -0500
> From: "Kurt Anderson" <kurt () 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: telmnstr () 757 org [mailto:telmnstr () 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.

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