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Nov. 21st, 2006 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogSome of the server team visited my office while I was gone (they're based at another site) and made some improvements in the data center. They're working on moving a bunch of machines off of physical hardware and virtualzing them onto a single big-ass machine (It's a dual Intel Xeon 3Ghz machine with 12GB(!) of RAM), so there are a few servers that are probably going to be going home with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
serinthia and I after work decides for sure they don't need them anymore. I may have more things to dispose of. I'm hoping to bring home a 6 foot rack too that posicat and I will cut into halves or thirds to make manageable homes for our assorted rack mount hardware.
But for now, I have a question about the piece of hardware I brought home. I know I can google the answer up on the net eventually, but it may well be that one of my friends knows already. I have a Tripp Lite 2200 UPS that's a 90 pound 3U rack mount form factor. The power plug is almost a normal three prong grounded plug (I've heard it called an 'Edison' though I'm not sure if that's the technical name for it) but one of the flat prongs is turned ninety degrees. I suspect that it's still a 120 volt connector and that it's just rated to a higher amperage than a normal connector (I know I've seen outlets that can accomodate both by just adding in a horizontal slash to one of the vertical slots), so as long as I keep the total load down, I can probably plug it in to a normal wall socket with an adapter. I'm just not sure what that connector is called, so I'm not sure where to find an adapter that goes from it to a normal plug. Do any of you know?
I'm going to do one or two more things and then trundle off to bed. G'night!
serinthia and I after work decides for sure they don't need them anymore. I may have more things to dispose of. I'm hoping to bring home a 6 foot rack too that posicat and I will cut into halves or thirds to make manageable homes for our assorted rack mount hardware.But for now, I have a question about the piece of hardware I brought home. I know I can google the answer up on the net eventually, but it may well be that one of my friends knows already. I have a Tripp Lite 2200 UPS that's a 90 pound 3U rack mount form factor. The power plug is almost a normal three prong grounded plug (I've heard it called an 'Edison' though I'm not sure if that's the technical name for it) but one of the flat prongs is turned ninety degrees. I suspect that it's still a 120 volt connector and that it's just rated to a higher amperage than a normal connector (I know I've seen outlets that can accomodate both by just adding in a horizontal slash to one of the vertical slots), so as long as I keep the total load down, I can probably plug it in to a normal wall socket with an adapter. I'm just not sure what that connector is called, so I'm not sure where to find an adapter that goes from it to a normal plug. Do any of you know?
I'm going to do one or two more things and then trundle off to bed. G'night!
