Packet Power Team
Know your Data Center Power, Part 3 - Single phase vs. three phase
Packet Power Team: Dec 10, 2010 4:51:00 PM
Let’s use our water pipe analogy again: imagine an “AC water” system that delivers alternating pulses of water pressure and vacuum in a closed loop system, using two pipes. Water flows to the receiver (some sort of a hydraulic engine) through one...
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Know Your Power, Part 2 – AC/DC and the Power Factor
Packet Power Team: Dec 6, 2010 4:52:00 PM
Most data centers today use AC (Alternating Current) power. The current within an AC system flows in one direction, reverses, flows backward and then forward again 50 or 60 times a second, depending on what country you’re in. That means that voltage...
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Know Your Power – The Basics
Packet Power Team: Dec 1, 2010 4:53:00 PM
Power is an essential part of data center operations. Data centers must make sure enough power is always available. This has always been a challenge, but the challenge has grown as data center operators must not also contend with delivering far more...
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Data Center Power Monitoring – Smart or Easy or Both
Packet Power Team: Nov 20, 2010 4:55:00 PM
There are a couple of words in the Hi-tech lexicon that have been overworked to the point of irrelevancy in the IT world because nearly every hardware and software vendor (including us) says they have the easiest and smartest solution. However...
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