Power factor, UPS, computer

Jan 03, 2014 87 Replies

Similar spec here, similar consumption.

You snipped the bit where I said they were servers.

Servers can do interesting things too.

I used to have a blog entry on blogs.sun.com explaining the difference in low power factor between phase shift (capacitor/inductor), phase control (light dimmer), and switched mode PSU.

Sadly, Oracle killed the blog when they acquired Sun as it wasn't 100% business related, but I still have an early non-blog version of the article at:

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IIRC we pinched a couple of still from those for the wiki ;-)

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