[NCLUG] Linux on Sun Hardware

[Jim Wildman]

No.  Some switching supplies won't pull anything (except fan) until 
they have a load.  They might have a spike, but I've never seen one
pull full load when the load does not exist.  (visions of opamps,
capacitors, resistors, and transistors dance in my head).  I had
to breadboard a +/- 15V current limited switching power supply during
an EET lab.

Actually, I've never seen a server pull half of it's faceplate amps.  
Usually because it is designed with a particular set of drives in mind.
By the time I see them, they have more efficient drives...

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Jim Wildman, CISSP                                      jim at rossberry.com
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Mike Loseke wrote:

> Thus spake Jim Wildman:
> > 
> > You do realize that they use nowhere near 15 amps unless they are fully
> > loaded with RAM, and disks?
> 
>  What about draw during power-on? Don't those PS' pull all they can when
> first turned on?
> 
>  /me sits back and waits for the physics lecture
> 
> > 
> > On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Michael Dwyer wrote:
> > 
> > > So, I have, like, four of these Sun beasts.  I only got one running, and
> > > even then figured that it was sort of silly to run a machine with a 15
> > > amp nameplate 24/7 just to prove that I could...  So, they are set up
> > > around the pool table as benches.
> > 
> 
>