>
> --- Will Jennings <xds_sigma7_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Uhhhh, my 11/750 has a standard normal-looking 3 prong standard-outlet
> > fitting plug.. It never has had a 30A twist-n-lock connector in all the time
> > I've owned it... Is this a bad thing?
>
> Dunno... both of mine have a power cable that is identical to what we had
> on a standard bottom-of-the-rack power distribution box - at least 1/2"
> diameter, capped with a twist-n-lock. The 11/730, for example, has an IEC
> connector in the back of the PSU, but the 42" cabinet has the same power
> cable as the 11/750 coming out the back.
>
> Maybe we just ordered ours with the machine-room power option. Perhaps
> there was an "office power" cable option. You can safely pull 15A through
> a normal plug (with an appropriately gauged cable attached, of course). By
> the time you get to 20A, in North America, one blade rotates 90 degrees to
> keep you from sticking it into a 15A outlet (got one of those on the end
> of my PDP-11/24). You can buy 20A wall sockets that will fit 15A and 20A
> plugs. They have one vertical hole and one T-shaped hole to accomodate either
> kind of plug. 30A needs something like the twist-n-lock.
>
> -ethan
>
IIRC 11750's only came with the twist lock in the cabinet.
Of course you could yank that off and rewire it in minutes.
I don't think the 11/750 drew 30 amps -- I think it was closer to 20
but DEC always used to go up a bit. I had stuff with 20 amp 115
that drew a lot less than that in real life.
I think the engineers used to take the maximum and max surge at power up
and add a reasonably large caution window for user added loads plugged
in to the power controllers.
Bill
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Received on Sat Jul 28 2001 - 06:49:33 BST