Doug Hughes <[email protected]> writes: > Don't forget that a 15A circuit only gives you 12A. Expect it to blow if > you use more than that for some amount of time on a slow blow fuse/circuit. > > Cutting power is kind of draconian. Why not just have a penalty fee? > With a smart monitoring strip and thresholds, you can charge a premium > if they use more than their alotment. Limit to 3 customers per circuit > at 4A each. Also, run 208VAC so you have more headroom and you won't see > things blowing. Put it in your TOC that all equipment must be capable of > running at 208V. There are so few things that don't anymore... (old > modems with power bricks come to mind).
> You'll save a few bucks on your electric by running at the higher > voltage, too. Why don't I only sell 3 quarter racks with some headroom and charge for overages? Mostly, because I'm trying for cheap; the market I serve is, ah, rather price sensitive. I think my customers would be okay with being treated the way I'm treated by the co-lo (which is to say, here is your circuit, don't blow it.) It looks like he.net 15 amp 120v cabs are so cheap that I can make good profit charging $150/month for a quarter rack with 1/4th of a 15a circuit. (and he.net bandwidth is so cheap I can pretty much give it away.) The he.net 15amp cabs are slightly more expensive per watt than my 2x20a 120v setups at SVTIX, but I think that if i'm renting out customer accessible shared racks, I'm better off giving them a little space. and I haven't found cheap (even per watt!) 208v power in the bay area. (hearkulies data in sacramento has cheap 208v, but I haven't seen it here in the bay, and herakulies doesn't have the abundance of cheap bandwidth that bay area co-los have. tips would be appreciated. ) Certainly for my own stuff, I would prefer 208v if I could get it. part of the problem is that even when it's cheaper per watt, the sales people think it's more expensive because it's more expensive per amp, so they try to steer me (the value customer) away. It usually takes quite a bit of arguing on my part before they will even quote it. _______________________________________________ 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/
