Wednesday, May 16, 2007
110 Volts ... 220 Volts ... what's the difference ??
A new entry in the "You can't make this stuff up" file:
Back in January I spec'd out a system to go in an office in Denver. The system requires TWO 220V/30A circuits. I could swear I told the locals there but I can't find an email to confirm it so assume it never happened. You would think this story would end there with a "Bad, Bad Rob! You need to document these things!" But no, I work with insane people so it can't stop there. It seems the "computer room manager" took it upon himself to replace the 220V plugs with 110V plugs and plug in the device underpowered.
Mind you it took a while to get to the bottom of this since it's in Denver and I can't see this work of art. We even put in service calls to the equipment vendor. It wasn't until the vendor said we "should really be using a larger PDU" that I said ... "fine we'll ship back the small ones and exchange them" then I was informed that we can't exchange them since they've been modified. "huh, wha???" Who would do such a thing?? If you were an installer and faced with the classic "square peg, round hole" problem wouldn't you pick up the phone to call someone ... if only just to bitch and moan???
#posted by Rob Roschewsk @ 1:33 PM