On 2015-01-26 09:32, John Wilson wrote:
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>
What? Don't all houses have lots of 3-phase 16A 410V? :-)
Holy crap! Kind of volty for my toys but I'm impressed anyway.
I'm trying to picture what normal people use that kind of power
for. It'd be fun to build a 3-phase 410-volt toaster, but I doubt
that's a common item.
This is Europe, remember...
Normal mains are 230V, and 3-phase are 410V phase to phase. All the DEC equipment around here are designed to run on that stuff.
Johnny
Don't you mean the toast and toaster???
-Steve
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On Jan 26, 2015, at 08:34, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:
On Jan 26, 2015, at 3:32 AM, John Wilson <wilson at dbit.com> wrote:
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>
What? Don't all houses have lots of 3-phase 16A 410V? :-)
Holy crap! Kind of volty for my toys but I'm impressed anyway.
I'm trying to picture what normal people use that kind of power
for. It'd be fun to build a 3-phase 410-volt toaster, but I doubt
that's a common item.
HOLY CRAP THE TOAST IS DONE AND I HAVEN T EVEN PUSHED THE BUTTON YET!!!!
-brian
On Jan 26, 2015, at 3:32 AM, John Wilson <wilson at dbit.com> wrote:
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>
What? Don't all houses have lots of 3-phase 16A 410V? :-)
Holy crap! Kind of volty for my toys but I'm impressed anyway.
I'm trying to picture what normal people use that kind of power
for. It'd be fun to build a 3-phase 410-volt toaster, but I doubt
that's a common item.
HOLY CRAP THE TOAST IS DONE AND I HAVEN T EVEN PUSHED THE BUTTON YET!!!!
-brian
By the way, if anybody has use for an emulated (EmuVM, 1 CPU, 512 MB RAM, couple hundred GB disk) Alpha, let me know.
I've got some spare capacity on my hosting setup.
sampsa
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>
What? Don't all houses have lots of 3-phase 16A 410V? :-)
Holy crap! Kind of volty for my toys but I'm impressed anyway.
I'm trying to picture what normal people use that kind of power
for. It'd be fun to build a 3-phase 410-volt toaster, but I doubt
that's a common item.
John Wilson
D Bit
On 1/25/2015 6:27 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2015-01-25 22:06, John Wilson wrote:
From: Steve Davidson <steve at davidson.net>
Is your "lab" in your dining room?
That's where all the 20A outlets are! (For hot plates etc. I guess, but
also good for soldering irons and twist-lock adapters within reason.)
What? Don't all houses have lots of 3-phase 16A 410V? :-)
(OK, so I did pick mine with a twisted mind, but sadly I then moved to another country and all my computers in Sweden are just sitting there powered off..)
Johnny
I am lucky, when we rented the house we are in, I asked and got permission from the landlord to run 3 30A 120V lines to the basement. Each line (at the time) had 1 APC 3000 UPS attached and these powered (at various times) my collection of Alphas, Integrities and one MicroVAX and their attendant storage. Heat during the summer ended up being my main enemy. In the winter I just opened up a window and let the cool air in. In the summer I needed a window A/C unit in the basement right next to the system racks. This pushed my summer power bill up to the $800/mo range so reluctantly, I shut most down and now only run them when I have a chance.
My house (Netherlands) is wired to all three phases of the mains grid. The default configuration is that just one phase gets a primary fuse (32A). Unless you've decided not to cook on a gas-fired stove in which case all phases get a fuse.
The max value for a primary fuse is higher, 64A possibly.
The primary fuse box is sealed. Behind it are secondary fuses, in my case 6 x 16A. Which allows you to blow the primary fuse. It gets repaired free of charge, but only once (every n years).
I run all my real iron on one 16A fuse.
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On 2015-01-25 22:06, John Wilson wrote:
From: Steve Davidson <steve at davidson.net>
Is your "lab" in your dining room?
That's where all the 20A outlets are! (For hot plates etc. I guess, but
also good for soldering irons and twist-lock adapters within reason.)
What? Don't all houses have lots of 3-phase 16A 410V? :-)
(OK, so I did pick mine with a twisted mind, but sadly I then moved to
another country and all my computers in Sweden are just sitting there
powered off..)
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
On 1/25/2015 3:39 PM, Steve Davidson wrote:
Local pickup from a friend who no longer had a need. I offered to take them and give them a good home.
-Steve
Should 4 ever be a little too much, I'd gladly provide a good home for one. I've been looking for a real PDP-11 to go with my real (micro)VAX and real Alpha and real Integrity systems. Although most of my stuff isn't that old (late 90's), if there is anything you're looking for in trade...
Are you anywhere convenient to Cincinnati, Ohio?
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On Jan 25, 2015, at 15:35, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 01/25/2015 10:50 AM, steve at davidson.net wrote:
There is ALWAYS room for a REAL PDP-11! :-)
:-)
I just picked up four (4) PDP-11/73's in the BA23 boxes.
Hey, were those from (or via) Jay West just last week?
-Dave
I inquired about those, but, of course, I was way late and missed out.
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3
New Kensington, PA
John H. Reinhardt
On Sun, 25 Jan 2015, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I'm looking for one of those, I would've either paid my or your return airfare to pick that up.
Well, shoot. If I had known that ... :)
I will keep my eyes and ears open. They don't come around often, but when they do ....
Fred
On 2015-01-25 22:06, John Wilson wrote:
From: Steve Davidson <steve at davidson.net>
Is your "lab" in your dining room?
That's where all the 20A outlets are! (For hot plates etc. I guess, but
also good for soldering irons and twist-lock adapters within reason.)
What? Don't all houses have lots of 3-phase 16A 410V? :-)
(OK, so I did pick mine with a twisted mind, but sadly I then moved to another country and all my computers in Sweden are just sitting there powered off..)
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
