So, that's not a very good endorsement :) Idk why you'd use a fuse in a PDU.
The management interface can be rebooted without taking anything down on the TrippLite but it's at a colo and it *shouldn't* time out like it does. I think of this like a vehicle computer - if it goes down, you might still drive for a little but get ready for a crash. On Jun 23, 2013 9:00 PM, "Luke S. Crawford" <l...@prgmr.com> wrote: > I also have had good experience with (used) servertech/century/power tower > (I think all the same brand) - very inexpensive; if you are in santa > clara I have some spare 2u 16 port 208v (20a/c19) units. > > Here is something a buddy wrote up when we were wiring them to the > user-accessable power on/off menu: > > http://blog.prgmr.com/**xenophobia/2012/02/notes-on-** > setting-up-a-sentry-p.html<http://blog.prgmr.com/xenophobia/2012/02/notes-on-setting-up-a-sentry-p.html> > > > My new rack is all avocent PM3001-401 units. Used, of course; but the > feature I was after was per-port power monitoring. > > I haven't quite gotten 'em all the way figured out yet. One thing I see > as a negative (but might be positive?) is that they have fuses, not > breakers. I don't know if this provides better protection; I do know > that when my buddy overloaded one of them in testing, I had to replace > fuses, rather than just switching a breaker back. (also, when a different > buddy plugged a ancient desktop (so old the PSU wasn't auto-switch) with > the power input switch set to 110 in, it blew some of the fuses in the PDU > (and took out the rack) - it didn't damage any of the other servers on the > pdu (other than taking out the PDU; but everything came back up when I > swapped it with my spare.) > > Also note, uh, the servertech and the avocent and I think all the other > PDUs I've seen can reboot the management interface without flipping the > outlets. I did it a bunch when I was getting familiar with the avocent. > > Yeah. I think I need to give fewer buddies access to production. > > > Nobody takes hardware seriously enough. I can find people I trust with > root, and that trust doesn't seem misplaced. But I let them touch the > hardware? and they fuck it up. So I end up doing almost all the > hardware stuff myself. > > > > On 06/23/2013 04:48 PM, Trey Valenta wrote: > >> I'll also throw out recommendations for ServTech PDUs. They have an >> affordable line of PDUs with static transfer switches that are particularly >> attractive for all your single-power-supply devices. >> > > >
