Luke S Crawford wrote: > Steven Kurylo <[email protected]> writes: > > >> You'll have to check with the authorities where you live. It may not >> be legal for you do to the electrical work. That said, you can >> certainly replace the breakers in the panel with 4/5/7amp breakers. >> So you have a 200amp panel, and instead of the normal 15amp breakers >> for each circuit, you just pop in the smaller one. >> > > Ok, thanks. yeah, I don't want to go in and start doing this sort of > thing myself, at least not without the proper supervision. I'd > be paying a licenced electrician to do it... but my experience has been > that you get much better results paying other people if you have some > idea as to what is possible and what should be done. > > _______________________________________________ > I'm with Richard on another point. You really ought to be using 30A drops instead of 15A. If you want to keep costs down, 208V 30A is the way to go. Every one of those drops is a cost point that somebody has to run individually. If you're going to have the load, fewer circuits is better.
But, check with the place where you will be installing. Some places (*cough* Equinix) have perverse incentives to still use 120V at a cheaper rate than 208V. They pocket the difference, naturally. (Some of this has to do with heat load and cooling). If this is your own space, you should seriously look at doing cooling right too. Cheaper up-front cooling is very expensive in long-term operations. A good initial cooling infrastructure pays for itself in operations costs, though the capital outlay is more. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
