Need source for high current HP type (with dimple) 14 or 16AWG 110vac power cord

-----Original Message----- From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Tothwolf Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 2:22 PM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: RE: Need source for high current HP type (with dimple) 14 or 16AWG 110vac power cord On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Russ Blakeman wrote: Actually, since these are switching supplies that are wired in parallel, pulling one power supply won't change the max current draw. Adding or removing drives and boards would change the max current draw. With two power supplies handling the load instead of three, the two just end up taking more of the distributed load. The 12A current draw I imagine is the max inrush rating, not what the unit would normally draw. HP would have come up with this rating by completely loading the system with the max boards, drives and memory that could be added, checking the inrush current draw, then adding some safety margin to that. You really should check the systems present current draw with an amp meter, however. -Toth I pondered that too but since I have a proper cable coming in with my heatsinks for the added Pros and 2 50 pin SCSI -I headers to an external HPDB50 SCSI-II for my Microtest 14 cd tower then within a week I'll have the thing hooked to a separately breakered circuit in the shop (instead of the living room, as much as I like it as a side table). Once it's in place I'm going to Win2k server which is why I need the SCSI adapters since the interface doesn't have updated software (discview) support for anything other than Novell and NT 3 and 4. The adapters allow me to swap it back to original if I decide to stick with NT 4 server too rather than chopping things up to make it a standadrd style cabled rack.