1 Jan
2022
1 Jan
'22
11:38 a.m.
On 1/1/22 12:33 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
And mainframes may use 3-phase power supplies; CDC
6000 mainframes do,
though with those it's 3 phase 400 Hz produced by motor-generators
(which in turn run off 3-phase mains power).
I know that some IBM mainframes prefer 3? power but I know of multiple
people that have re-wired their CECs to use 1? power. They too are
largely independent 1? supplies on different phases to jointly power a
common internal bus. So re-wiring the necessary supplies to the same
phase is mostly not a big deal.
Apparently even IBM sold and supported some systems in this
configuration. The only down side is that it put an upper cap on the
amount of power that you could draw and thus things that you could run
in this configuration. But for smaller installations, it's perfectly fine.
--
Grant. . . .
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