Subject: Re: VAX8350
To: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
From: James Lothian <simul8@simul8.demon.co.uk>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/25/2000 02:34:26
Dave McGuire wrote:
>
> No, the 8350 is a much smaller machine. I'm sure it does have
> airflow sensors in there somewhere, but it's a single-chassis box
> that's the same as the original 8200 came in (BA32?)...It's a 10.5"
> tall unit that can be taken out of whatever rack it's in and put into
> any other 19" rack and plugged into a power strip like the rest of us
> do. ;) Its blowers are powered internally by the same power
> cable...it's completely stand-alone.
>
> That three-phase business, though...I think it's not three-phase,
> but just 220V (actually two-phase, two hots and a neutral)...If the
> power connector has three blades, it's one of these. If it's labeled,
> it should say "L6-30".
>
> But again you don't need to use that power distribution unit. You
> can just use the standard 110v power connector on the end of the cable
> coming out of the processor chassis itself.
>
> -Dave McGuire
>
OK, sorry, I was confusing it with the larger 8000 machines. In that
case
it does look like a PSU problem. Is it by any chance a similar
arrangement
to the 11/44?
James