Posts from ‘September, 2009’

Today the distribution panels were mounted and the conduit attached to the UPS. All of the conduit and panel installations are just about done, at which point we’ll be waiting for a custom 400A panelboard to arrive in order to finish it out and power everything up.

We have a few pictures we’d like to share for this update. We’ve moved UPS #1 into position in the electrical room where it awaits its electrical connections. As before, the blue tape on the floor marks equipment footprints and helps us position everything with appropriate clearances. The unit is heavy enough that it’s indented [...]

The ceiling in the back where the electrical service entrance is 25 feet, so we installed this ladder rack to bring it down to 9 feet in order to ease installation and future additions. It also drastically reduces the installed wire footage. At the top of the frame you’ll see a set of three conduits [...]

We have good news; our latest freight delivery arrived unharmed! We’ll just let the pictures speak for themselves. We can operate four of these together in parallel and have room for three plus their additional battery cabinets. Adding the fourth would require a wall to be moved, something we can do easily in the future [...]

We’d been off to a great start, but unfortunately a few bad things have happened. A battery cabinet for the new UPS system showed up damaged and our Verizon circuit still hasn’t been re-provisioned correctly. Without a functional circuit with Verizon we can’t use it to perform an uninterrupted migration of our equipment from the [...]

Although we are still missing the UPS (now due to arrive on Sept. 16), we did receive the paralleling tie cabinet and started installing the wiring troughs in the server room that will carry the overhead electrical in the server room. They will eventually be installed overhead, but they’re pictured here laid out on the [...]