Re: DATACENTER: Cooling and Cost Data for Web Hosting Data Centers

[Ken Woods <kwoods@verio.net>]

uhh.....

I'm not even gonna start.



On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, scott w wrote:

> 
> 
> KVA has the same units as watts (volts * amps), but is written KVA so as
> to denote complex power.  complex power = real power + i*imaginary power.
> Imaginary in the sense that you use the square root of -1 and that doesn't
> exist, so it's an imaginary number represented by i. Here's a sort of
> hueristic approach. I haven't followed much of the thread so I hope it
> helps.  Got my flame-proof panties on just in case...  ;-)
> 
> 1.add up the total DC wattage
> 2.divide total DC Watts by 0.7 (1 divided by the square root of 2 ~= .7)
> 3.divide by 0.65 to cover for power factor and apparent power correction
> (rough estimate)
> 4.divide by 1000 to get KVA  
> 
> 
> scott
> 

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