Re: Server room, DC power supply?

From: Juha Laiho (Juha.Laiho_at_iki.fi)
Date: 08/25/04


Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:17:03 GMT

ac25kV@yahoo.com (Nexus7) said:
>I was thinking of building some servers - file server, email server, some
>compute boxes, etc. as an upgrade to some existing hardware. It looks like
>it is significantly more expensive to get redundant power supplies, so I
>was wondering if I can use some DC-DC power supplies in the servers,
>running off say, 24V or telecom 48V, or such. I haven't been able to find
>much on the web in the way of hardware I need for this.

I haven't seen (but havent been searching, for that matter) 48VDC input
power supplies on the consumer market. However, I once did notice IBM
having some rackmount PC models w 48VDC supply (I was requesting a quote
for some models, and got offers for the respective 48VDC models -- too
bad I didn't have 48VDC available at the machine room).

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