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LazMan
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join:2003-03-26
Beverly Hills, CA

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Re: Cisco CRS with 100Gb line card

said by TheMG:

The building I work in (which is not a CO, but does house a lot of rather important equipment), has two 1.5MW CAT diesel gensets.

They are MASSIVE gensets and very impressive to see/hear them start up.

Total load is just under 1MW, but there are two gensets for redundancy in case one fails to start.

Lightweight...

Largest complex I maintain regularly has 6 1.5 MW and 2 2 MW generators, and I was called in on an emergency to another building of ours with 3 5MW turbines... They are impressive as it gets at startup...

battleop
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Turbines are certainly the coolest sounding getsets, period. We looked at some but decided against it because there was concern about local service and parts.

LazMan
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join:2003-03-26
Beverly Hills, CA

LazMan

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Turbines are awesome, but you are absolutely right about service and parts... As well as being tied to a specific vendor - there's 100's of companies that can service your average generator - turbines mean dealing with the company that built it almost exclusively....