Ive seen that, but at scale. Was in PS at Netapp, and I was asked to sit-in on a customer moving racks of 500s, 600s, and a few 700s from telco racks to cabinets. At the time the cabinets were 240v only. I was in another room...sit-in help as needed, I was not allowed in the DC.
They made a show of 'lets hit the breakers and turn on all 11 cabinets at once'. Most of them were full of shelves with 120v only power supplies, at the time I think that was "green button" supplies.
Lots of oil..lots of fire.
Replaced 100+ supplies with switching ones, and all was good in the end.
Them was the dayz..
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On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:51 AM, Steve Rikli sr@genyosha.net wrote:
Don't stand directly behind it when you turn it on. :-)
Semi-seriously though, I once had a very old original DS14 shelf p/s (the ones with the vertial bar handles) flame out at me. We'd just finished re-racking the rig, so I flipped on the breakers and moved down the row to start on the next one, when the p/s spat out a small and brief burst of smoke and spark.
It wouldn't have been harmful and probably wouldn't have even left a mark, but it was still a surprise.
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 04:39:04PM +0000, Jeffrey Mohler wrote:
This could be fun...and old F760 with say, 4 shelves of 36G drives..
Replace the NVRAM battery, check power supplies for leaking capacitor oil...reseat cards and DIMMS...
What're the odds it'll work, and any other fire-prevention steps to take??????? :)