[Info-vax] GS1280 wants a home

[David B Turner Islandco.com]

At full test we measured 17A @ 240V/60Hz

That was with 16 1150Mhz CPU and two hard drives raid ctr and a couple of 
nics with 32GB memory
The more memory etc the more power used of course.

David



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David Turner
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"John Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> wrote in message 
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> "JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote in message 
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>> Paul Sture wrote:
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>>> Do you realize how much power one of these needs?
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>>
>> How much power do one of these needs ? Can one turn off CPUs (via
>> software) to reduce power consumption and heat generation ?
>>
>> Or did DEC/HP design thsoe without any consideration for energy 
>> efficiency ?
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> These were designed for machine rooms.  The main plug is 100A, 3-phase, 
> 240V I believe.  If you have some of the expansion I/O cabs, they have 
> their own power (30A 3-phase I think).
>
> I would not expect a residence to have sufficient power to run it.
>
> John
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