Re: Why choose 120 volts?

[Barney Wolff <barney () databus com>]

Yes - think of all the nasty partial failure cases that can be eliminated -
each entire datacenter is either up or down.  Much simpler!

Getting back to reality, I've watched more than one electrician do a
two-finger liveness test on a 120v circuit, and done it myself.  240v
HURTS, and I've not seen a pro finger it deliberately.  But I haven't
actually asked.

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 01:34:41PM -0700, Ray Sanders wrote:
> So when one server fails, all the rest fail too? 

> On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 16:29 -0400, Barney Wolff wrote:
> > Doesn't even need non-standard servers - just wire them all in series.
> >
> > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 03:23:46PM -0500, Kurt Anderson wrote:
> > > Why stop there? Grab a 20,000 volt feeder and create a Tesla datacenter.

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Barney Wolff         I never met a computer I didn't like.