EATON AMA

JaredBusch

So how much is the MSRP on the 11kw home unit? not counting installation?

art_of_shred

Coffee break @ Eaton offices?

JColeKen

@JaredBusch Around $3,500-$4,000, not including the automatic transfer switch.

art_of_shred

@JColeKen said:

@JaredBusch Around $3,500-$4,000, not including the automatic transfer switch.

For 11kW?? Wow. I would have expected a bit more for that.

BRRABill

@art_of_shred said:

Coffee break @ Eaton offices?

I'm more curious as to how they are as a group handling questions. Huddled in a conference room?

dafyre

@art_of_shred said:

@JColeKen said:

@JaredBusch Around $3,500-$4,000, not including the automatic transfer switch.

For 11kW?? Wow. I would have expected a bit more for that.

Maybe installation is an extra $7,723.69 ?

art_of_shred

@BRRABill said:

@art_of_shred said:

Coffee break @ Eaton offices?

I'm more curious as to how they are as a group handling questions. Huddled in a conference room?

"Who is this Jared guy, and how much should we tell him?"

BRRABill

@windso said:

@JColeKen @BRRABill @mdecamp @gbeyhaut - Yes, the Panther bandwagon is alive and kicking. We do the Dab whenever we close a sale... It's contagious.

I forwarded the video (and subsequent posting) of Jerry Richardson doing the DAB to my daughter's soccer team. I love the message.

BRRABill

@ciwoodhouse said:

@BRRABill Here's the gist:
• You can purchase up to three times the VA you are trading in! The new Eaton unit can be a smaller VA rating than the old UPS too.
• Your discount is for the purchase of the new Eaton UPS only and not the old UPS traded in
• Return shipping labels will be provided to you to send the old UPS(s) back for disposal – free of charge

It is a set discount amount, like 10% or whatever?

For me, a lot of the allure of that program is just getting rid of the old UPSes in an environmentally friendly way.

BRRABill

@dafyre said:

@art_of_shred said:

@JColeKen said:

@JaredBusch Around $3,500-$4,000, not including the automatic transfer switch.

For 11kW?? Wow. I would have expected a bit more for that.

Maybe installation is an extra $7,723.69 ?

kW not K.

coliver

@JColeKen said:

@JaredBusch Around $3,500-$4,000, not including the automatic transfer switch.

Oh... man that is inexpensive... might need to look at that in the near future. I've learned so much from this AMA.

JColeKen

@dafyre Our offering is a liquid propane or natural gas generator, so no diesel. The electrical wiring, installation, and the ATS would be additional costs.

coliver

Explain it like I am 5. How do you correctly calculate the power usage of a 3-phase PDU? I have been wrestling with this and would really love a simple calculator or spreadsheet or something.

molly

@art_of_shred I think everyone just left the techy questions to @JColeKen to fend for himself Don't eat him alive!

BRRABill

I recently started a discussion here on ML about why UPS companies like to always recommend "server-grade" UPS for servers, even though they might not really need it.

What is your feeling on this, and is there any times you think a desktop level UPS might be OK for some server applications? (As the included thread seems to lean in that direction.)

http://mangolassi.it/topic/6865/server-ups-recommendations/2

art_of_shred

@coliver said:

@JColeKen said:

@JaredBusch Around $3,500-$4,000, not including the automatic transfer switch.

Oh... man that is inexpensive... might need to look at that in the near future. I've learned so much from this AMA.

Yeah, the wheels are turning in my head, now. Hmm....

molly

@Nic One of the things Eaton is most excited about is CI and hyper CI...we've made a lot of headway with others in the industry to try to make lives of IT pros easier and make their solutions more reliable. http://powerquality.eaton.com/About-Us/Alliances/default.asp

art_of_shred

@molly said:

@art_of_shred I think everyone just left the techy questions to @JColeKen to fend for himself Don't eat him alive!

You can feel free to answer my line conditioner question...

molly

@art_of_shred If I felt I adequately could, I would! I have come to terms that I'm no IT pro.

gbeyhaut

@BRRABill We tested that theory on a different forum with a user base. We provided an “off-line” UPS in their typical environments. Communications is really what makes a UPS “server grade”. So if being able to remotely shutdown (or with integration of a hypervisor) migrate VM’s to a safe host (a server that is not on battery), which is usually the case, we would recommend sticking with something that talks to you and lets you take actions or have those actions preemptively ready to go.