Re: How do redundant power supplies in servers work?

Seth Mattinen <sethm-z7IltzP/[email protected]> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:53:40 -0700
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On 9/11/11 5:29 PM, Erik Anderson wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Blake Pfankuch <bpfankuch-iDUpQSA8o47qlBn2x/[email protected]> wrote:
>> http://blog.samkendall.net/2010/03/22/hp-proliant-g6-series-server-issues-with-line-interactive-upss/  this specifically discusses HP servers and APC, but we have seen the same thing with smaller UPS', even rack mountable, and new dell servers too.
>>
> 
> Very interesting article, Blake. Thanks for sending it along! We use
> high-end APC UPSes at my current $work, but the symptoms the author
> described do help make sense of some similar behavior I saw a few
> years ago with a cheap UPS at a client site.
> 

Yeah, any UPS that outputs a stepped approximation sine wave (rather
than a pure sine wave) will probably not play nice. Always go for the
pure sine wave models for important stuff. Of course, convincing a
client not to cheap out on the UPS is a different story.

~Seth
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