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

[Michael Loftis <mloftis () wgops com>]

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:
> I phrased my comment poorly, which mislead you.  I was suggesting a UPS which
> took 208VAC on on the charge side, and charged 48VDC batteries with it,
> providing -48 to a rack full of equipment which took that.
>
> People actually call those "48VDC UPSs", though in fact they're just
> Little Teeny Battery Plants.  :-)

Ah, well, the XW (6048's) *do* have a 100A charger each (so up to 300A
@ ~48VDC) so they could be used for that too :D-- but that same
industry segment, solar/renewable, makes 48VDC charger only/rectifier
only systems as well.  So my answer still sort of stands :D


> Cheers,
> -- jra