Ok… The truth is I was scrolling through Facebook Marketplace and I saw a an Eaton 5PX2200 UPS for sale. It was rackmount and the pictures looked good. But for an impulse purchase the price was a little high. A few weeks went by and the price dropped a bit – getting closer. Then this weekend it dropped to a price that, even if the batteries were shot, was worth it.
(I should note that the Lenovo is a rebadged Eaton unit. The network module reports Eaton.)
I dropped over and not only did the battery seem to be fine (there was barely enough charge left to check), it looked good (a little pushed in on the back where the power cord comes in), no scratches, and it has the rails (FYI – they only go to 36″ and HP servers need 38″, so too short and I had to use the shelf rails that came with the rack), manuals and CDs. The story the seller told me he took the UPS in trade for some gaming PC parts thinking that using for his gaming PC. Considering any higher end gaming PC draws more than my DL380 Gen9 with dual power supplies that makes sense. Anyway, the Eaton draws 20A which requires the plug below which the seller did not have.
I have a 20A outlet in my home office (future planning 😉 ) so no cord cutting for me.
After moving the DL380 to the Eaton, with the rest of the gear left on the Lenovo RT1.5KVA, here are the runtime (sorry, I didn’t bother to match the brightness and contrast):
Well, that is nice – all ready for winter and any shorter power outages.
Here’s where we are now:
Only thing that is left is my 10GbE switch. And with Winter comes Christmas 🙂
About Mike Pelley
Let’s see… A little about me…
I’ve been around information technology since 1983 with computers such as DEC Rainbows (weird machine – the standard DOS couldn’t format its own floppy disks – remember them? – and I had to format them on a friend’s IBM PC) to Radio Shack TRS-80 to Apple ][e and Apple //c in the beginning.
I have programmed in 8-bit assembly language on 6502, FORTRAN and COBOL on IBM System/370 (and I still hate JCL), VAX BASIC and COBOL (and a weird and massive WordPerfect 4.0 macro) on DEC VMS (Alpha), C/C++ on Digital Unix (ALPHA), and C/C++, Perl (it may be powerful but I still hate it), PHP on Linux (Red Hat, Centos, Ubuntu, etc.).
I have work with databases such as Digital RDB (later to become Oracle RDB), Oracle DBMS, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL on VAX, Alpha, Sun and Intel.
Check out my professional profile and connect with me on LinkedIn. See http://lnkd.in/nhTRZe
I still think that Digital created some of the best ideas in the world: VAX clustering, DSSI disks (forerunner to SCSI) and the Alpha processor (first commercial 64-bit processor – Red Hat screamed on an Alpha!). DEC just could not seem to be able to give air conditioners away to someone lost in the Sahara Desert!
VMware is one of the best ways to get the most out of an x64 server. And I have tried Oracle VM, Virtual Box and Microsoft Virtual Server.
Outside of that I am a huge military history buff starting in the early 20th century. I love Ford Mustangs (my ’87 Mustang GT was awesome) and if I had the money I would have a Porsche 928S4. If I had a lot of money I would have a Porsche 911 Turbo.
I also play too much AmrA 3 Exile mod. Over 5,000+ hours...
I have a wonderful son, Cameron. I have a long suffering (Do you really need all that computer junk?) wife, Paula. I live in Paradise, Newfoundland and Labrador.
