Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]our best to them ric On Sep 15, 2006, at 8:42 PM, Brian Reid wrote: > >> Hope their cleanup is smooth. > > This was really quite a close call. There are about 1000 server > computers in this data center, and the amount of electricity that > it takes to power them is large. The building used to be a factory > where electric motors were manufactured, and so the electric power > was added on. Last night one of the electrical junction boxes > caught fire. The electricians who came this morning to replace it > said that it had been built with wire that was far too small for > the application. The circuit was 240 volts, 100 amperes, but it had > been wired with AWG 3 wire (5.83mm). The electrical code requires > AWG 0 wire for that, and suggests AWG 00 (1cm) wire. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information