Re: dc servers

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike-uVNFFiCRr/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.internet-access
Organization People's Front Against WWW
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On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, jp wrote:

> I'm thinking I could run three-phase AC into a diode network to get 
> full-wave-bridge-rectifier really smooth output with really well phase 
> balanced input. This would give me 120vdc.

120VAC is the average, not the peak of the amplitude. You need the peak, 
so you need around 160VDC or so.

There are people in Europe doing this at 308 volts (if I remember 
correctly), so it's been done and most switching PSUs handle this just 
fine.

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