UPSes - MinuteMan, others?

Ted Roche tedroche at tedroche.com
Sun Aug 13 09:23:00 EDT 2006


On Aug 11, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Ben Scott wrote:

>  I often wonder why the IT industry doesn't come up with something
> along those lines.  While redundant-everything is more then most
> people want, the flow of power is much more appropriate.  With a
> conventional setup, we convert from AC to DC to AC to DC, as we go
> from line to UPS to computer power supply to computer.  It would be
> nice if we could leave the inverter out, leave the PC PSU out, and
> just go from AC to DC in the UPS, and then run DC directly into the
> PC.

Power waste is becoming a sensitive issues in data centers as CPUs  
get hotter and servers denser.

There are some ongoing projects, such as the one discussed two days  
before your post on Slashdot...

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/09/1245238

Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com





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