7 Jun
2013
7 Jun
'13
3:44 p.m.
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 06/07/2013 04:41 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
I guess that'd require more than my laser printer which needs about 9A.
It would trip the UPS when I'd print a page.
That's serious power -- 10's of kW. What
on earth does it use it all for?
How can a tape drive take 40A on 3 phases? The motors can't be that big,
surely?
I would guess that it has something to do with needing to start and
stop the spindle motors very quickly.
-Dave
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