Dryer outlets and Thyristors

From: vance_at_neurotica.com <(vance_at_neurotica.com)>
Date: Fri May 16 11:45:08 2003

On Fri, 16 May 2003, John Allain wrote:

> I was considering picking up a VAX 6000-610, let me rephrase
> that, I was considering moving a VAX 6000 to my garage,
> somehow, and... I remember an extensive discussion a while
> back about getting Gunther's and perhaps other peoples VAXen
> to work on house power.
>
> Can someone supply a summary of how do do so? A pointer to
> an "eureka" email would suffice if one exists since I have a pretty
> good classiccmp archive here.

All you do is to hook the two live leads from the dryer plug to the three
live terminals on the 3-phase plug on the VAX. What I mean is that you
hook phase 1 live and phase 3 live to one live leg of the dryer plug, and
phase 2 to the other live leg. Then you hook neutral to neutral, ground
to ground, and plug it in. Then you're good to go.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Fri May 16 2003 - 11:45:08 BST