Re: Want to move to all 208V for server racks

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

Your battery stack isn't like 12v either, unless it's one battery.

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On Dec 3, 2010, at 20:02, Jima <nanog () jima tk> wrote:

> On 12/3/2010 9:25 PM, Matthew Petach wrote:
> > (OK, so it's not as practical when you have other customers to worry
> > about... but it might not be so crazy when you're looking at the
> > efficiency numbers for 100,000 small 1u power supplies vs a set
> > of much larger ones.)
>
> Particularly if you're running your AC power through UPSes -- especially online ones (where there's a constant 
> AC-DC-AC conversion happening).  Go to DC for the batteries, never come back.  It's a tempting notion.
>
>     Jima