This turned out to be a great thread! It should give me plenty of ammo to convince the decision-makers. Thanks to all!
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 9:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Portable A/C for computer room? Thanks. This is what the contractors are looking into. That is, how brief, and how to make *$&# sure that brief load doesn't trip something. -- RMc "Maglinger, Paul" <[email protected]> wrote on 08/11/2010 08:40:46 AM: > 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... > -- > Richard D. McClary > Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group > ASPCA(r) > 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 > Urbana, IL 61802 > > [email protected] > > P: 217-337-9761 > C: 217-417-1182 > F: 217-337-9761 > www.aspca.org > > The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments > hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(r) > (ASPCA(r)) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named > herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential > information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, > you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, > copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments > hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in > error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently > delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. > > > "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 > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > > . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
