On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 07:13:39PM -0800, [email protected] wrote: > > I wasn't saying that resistance was causing the voltage drop, I was > explaining why 208v is better to use than 120v
Oh, right. That meshes with my (perhaps incorrect) ideas. but it seems that most of those benifits (e.g. more efficent transmission) of 208v accrue to the data center, not to me, e.g. I'm paying for watts, and with 2 amps of 120v, I'm getting 240 watts, (and the data center has to pay the power company for 240 watts plus whatever losses are inherent to their distribution systems) while with 1 amp of 208v, I'm getting 208 watts (and the data center has to pay the power company for 208 watts plus whatever losses are inherent to their system.) So, as far as I can tell, the data center is paying less to the power company for every 1 amp of 208v they sell me than for every 2 amps of 120v they sell me, even though they charge me the same amount for both products. I guess the real question is what I get the most value out of; an amp of 208 or two amps of 120. I think I need to experimentally verify this. It's all very irritating, as I just bought like 25 fairly nice servertech brand 16 port 20 amp 208v metering/switched PDUs with nice C19->L6-20 plugs. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
