[tech] Machine room power

[Simon Fryer]

Bingle

> A while ago James Andrewartha tapped:

> Nick B, James B, Mark and myself, with assistance from Trent Lloyd, Chas
> and Chris Grubb have converted the machine room over the new power
> circuit. 

Good Work. 

> The transition went fairly smoothly, with mooneye getting 100meg
> of ram total (once it decided to see the hdd) and dagon getting a box that
> has a working keyboard/vga output. The power distribution unit and the
> long yellow cables are no more (and a good thing too - one of them was ...
> self-adjusted to handle high current (read socket fused to the plug)).

Yes, I knew about the socket fused problem. It was not running too hot! :)
Are you sure that removing the power distribution unit was a good think(tm)? 
I seem to recall machines plugged into it survive some pretty unpleasent 
spikes that caused robooting of PC's not plugged into it. AFAIK all that 
it needed was to replace the fans and it should have been happy again. 

My 1p. :)

See Ya
Simon

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