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Re: MAE-East still no generator

  • From: Vadim Antonov
  • Date: Sun Sep 08 06:05:37 1996

Robert E. Seastrom <rs@bifrost.seastrom.com> wrote:

>   From: Andrew Partan <asp@partan.com>
>
>   So what are you using?  AC or DC?  If you are not on DC, I would
>   switch.  Maybe you would have better luck.

>You took the words right out of my mouth.  -48vDC is *so* much cleaner
>and less troublesome than mains AC (or even upsed AC) that I urge all
>my clients to use it for *everything* whenever it's available.

Typically telco setups have about 30min-1hr of AC UPS capacity and
4-6 hrs of 48V battery capacity.  Last time i was at MAE-East it
didn't have any backup AC power and a nice DC setup.

BTW, the cheap solution for DC hookup would be using a power inverter.

--vadim
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