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[Tim Jackson]

I use these little 1U Supermicro DC servers that I buy from
abmx.comeverywhere... Any AC power we have in any location is inverted
back from DC
anyway, so I just buy DC servers...

http://www.abmx.com/1u-telecom-server-athlon64-48v-dc-power-supply-p-214.html

Supermicro makes DC power supplies for a lot of their other servers, too...

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Tim

On 2/28/07, Jon Lewis <jlewis at lewis.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 nachocheeze at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I'm looking to put in a machine in one of our colo facilities to do
> > various NMS type stuff (remote console server, network monitoring,
> > etc) for a bunch of our network gear.  However, getting an AC power
> > feed to our rack is pretty much out; like most telco-hotels, it's
> > almost all DC power.
>
> Though you can get DC power supplies for PC's another option worth
> consideration is a rack-mount inverter which will make AC from the
> colo-supplied DC.  We've used these to power 2900XL series switches when
> AC power wasn't available.
>
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