[c-nsp] Hot Swaping 7206 Power Supplies

[Dave Weis]

Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Richey wrote:
>> I've always been told that the card slots in the non VXR 7206s were not hot
>> swappable.  I've got a non VXR 7206 with 1 AC and 1 DC power supply.  The DC
>> needs to come out and an AC stuck back in it's place because it's new home
>> does not have DC power available.  Can you hot swap the power supply in the
>> non VXR 7200s?
> 
> If the new home doesn't have DC, one would assume the router isn't powered 
> up there, so hot swapping the power supply is not an issue.  According to 
> cisco docs, you can't mix AC and DC supplies in a 7200.  I've never tried 
> it to see what happens.

I've done it for brief periods moving a router from AC to DC and it 
stayed running fine, but that was for 5 minutes while I recabled.

dave