That's a start current and is typically pretty brief.  The actually
running current would be much less.  

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 8:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Portable A/C for computer room?

 


Our (a hijacker!) current problem is, we have been told the start-up
draw on the server room A/C unit we want (this is a real one for real
server rooms, not a portable) is 100 Amps.  That doesn't seem like much,
except the compressor runs on something like 408 VAC. 

SO, such a generator would need to be about 45k Volt-Amps just for the
room cooler start-up.  Contractors are now investigating this a bit
further...
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"N Parr" <[email protected]> wrote on 08/11/2010 08:00:08 AM:

> You could probably run your entire server room on a 12-20k generac
> guardian and be done with the whole thing.  7k unit runs pretty much
my
> whole house.  And it puts out clean enough power that my APC's don't
> complain.  Power goes off and 30 sec later it comes back on.  Natural
> Gas or LP Powered.  It's a lot more expensive that the portable air
> conditioner you started out wanting but if your supporting all the
> locations you say then it would pay for itself in a few hours of lost
> production.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 4:03 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Portable A/C for computer room?
> 
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:58 PM, David Mazzaccaro
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > We have 8 remote locations (WAN) that all rely on us to be able to
do 
> > anything.
> > All of our resources are here, and the remote sites run all apps
over 
> > Citrix, and all phones are run VoIP from here.
> > So if we go down... Everyone goes down.
> 
>   These discussions should always be build around cost of downtime.
> If you really mean "everyone goes down" (and it sounds like you do),
> then I'd say your cost of downtime would be quite large.  Given that,
I
> would say you should absolutely get an auto-start generator and an
> automatic transfer switch, hard-wired so that they power your computer
> room chiller and your UPS.  Don't futz around with mickey-mouse
> solutions.
> 
> -- Ben
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