heads up; OSI Challenger 1P - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

20 Apr 1999

...
 <>that were clearly under 1.4kw.  The codes are
aimed at providing reasonabl
<>power.  Here a 15A/115v is the nominal and 115V/20A is a max
<
<No, it isn't.  I have several 115V 30A circuits in my computer room -
<this being an extremely common rating on the power controllers used
<in smaller DEC systems - and looking at the codes and the Hubbell catalog
<it would seem that 60A circuits are standard things as well. 
...
 I should have qualified that as common residential and
business circuits. 
I would call 115V 30A a common business circuit; it's certainly exceedingly
common on minicomputer power controllers.  What else do folks plug the
Twist-N-Locks on their DEC 861C power controllers into?

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