So I have a large amount of 802.3af gear going out to sites for new installs and upgrades, which means a lot of new electrical service is being pulled into closets. Despite my best efforts it seems the standard IT-Facilities miscommunications are occuring with the building folks at these sites, the wiring is being done wrong and I'm left to clean up the mess. What's vexed me the most about this is that many of our "remote hands" have no electrical experience at all so they're completely unable to determine the types of plugs and receptacles they're dealing with. I'm left with descriptions that are, I kid you not, as helpful as "the twisty plug with the bent part." If somebody can't tell me if the receptacle is L6-15 or L5-15 I'm going to have a very difficult time sorting this all out and getting the appropriate wiring (re)done. So I'm wondering, has anybody found a good online resource (or a printed resource I can go pick up somewhere) that has illustrations of the different plugs and receptacles found in the wild? It would help me greatly if I could just point somebody to a PDF online somewhere and say "Go to this website, find the receptacle that looks like what has been installed in your switch closet and read the number back to me." I found one at GeneratorJoe.net and while it'll do in a pinch, it's sorta low-quality and I'd like something better. Off-list replies welcomed. -Fer Jason "Feren" Olsen Senior Network Engineer DeVry, Inc Em: jolsen@devry.com Ph: 630-645-1607 One Tower Lane INOC-DBA: 19258*526 Fx: 630-389-2929 Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181
http://www.leviton.com/sections/techsupp/nema.htm (I got this by going to google, typing 'nema plug' and hitting 'I'm Felling Lucky!') On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Olsen, Jason wrote:
So I have a large amount of 802.3af gear going out to sites for new installs and upgrades, which means a lot of new electrical service is being pulled into closets. Despite my best efforts it seems the standard IT-Facilities miscommunications are occuring with the building folks at these sites, the wiring is being done wrong and I'm left to clean up the mess. What's vexed me the most about this is that many of our "remote hands" have no electrical experience at all so they're completely unable to determine the types of plugs and receptacles they're dealing with. I'm left with descriptions that are, I kid you not, as helpful as "the twisty plug with the bent part." If somebody can't tell me if the receptacle is L6-15 or L5-15 I'm going to have a very difficult time sorting this all out and getting the appropriate wiring (re)done.
So I'm wondering, has anybody found a good online resource (or a printed resource I can go pick up somewhere) that has illustrations of the different plugs and receptacles found in the wild? It would help me greatly if I could just point somebody to a PDF online somewhere and say "Go to this website, find the receptacle that looks like what has been installed in your switch closet and read the number back to me." I found one at GeneratorJoe.net and while it'll do in a pinch, it's sorta low-quality and I'd like something better.
Off-list replies welcomed.
-Fer
Jason "Feren" Olsen Senior Network Engineer DeVry, Inc Em: jolsen@devry.com Ph: 630-645-1607 One Tower Lane INOC-DBA: 19258*526 Fx: 630-389-2929 Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181
-- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, alex@nac.net, latency, Al Reuben Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net
http://www.crownonline.com/nema.htm includes some of the twist-locks. Fortunately, most of the twist-locks have their type printed right on the front of them, so you can read it unless there's something plugged in. -porkchop At 11:56 AM -0500 3/28/06, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
http://www.leviton.com/sections/techsupp/nema.htm
(I got this by going to google, typing 'nema plug' and hitting 'I'm Felling Lucky!')
-- Michael "Porkchop" Kaegler, Network Analyst, 845 575 3061 Marist College, 3399 North Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 A man attempted to amuse an audience by spouting his 10 favorite puns, but no pun in ten did.
And for the twist locks http://www.analogduck.com/main/node/186 seph Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net> writes:
http://www.leviton.com/sections/techsupp/nema.htm
(I got this by going to google, typing 'nema plug' and hitting 'I'm Felling Lucky!')
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Olsen, Jason wrote:
So I have a large amount of 802.3af gear going out to sites for new installs and upgrades, which means a lot of new electrical service is being pulled into closets. Despite my best efforts it seems the standard IT-Facilities miscommunications are occuring with the building folks at these sites, the wiring is being done wrong and I'm left to clean up the mess. What's vexed me the most about this is that many of our "remote hands" have no electrical experience at all so they're completely unable to determine the types of plugs and receptacles they're dealing with. I'm left with descriptions that are, I kid you not, as helpful as "the twisty plug with the bent part." If somebody can't tell me if the receptacle is L6-15 or L5-15 I'm going to have a very difficult time sorting this all out and getting the appropriate wiring (re)done.
So I'm wondering, has anybody found a good online resource (or a printed resource I can go pick up somewhere) that has illustrations of the different plugs and receptacles found in the wild? It would help me greatly if I could just point somebody to a PDF online somewhere and say "Go to this website, find the receptacle that looks like what has been installed in your switch closet and read the number back to me." I found one at GeneratorJoe.net and while it'll do in a pinch, it's sorta low-quality and I'd like something better.
Off-list replies welcomed.
-Fer
Jason "Feren" Olsen Senior Network Engineer DeVry, Inc Em: jolsen@devry.com Ph: 630-645-1607 One Tower Lane INOC-DBA: 19258*526 Fx: 630-389-2929 Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181
-- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, alex@nac.net, latency, Al Reuben Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net
{I'm no electrician, so this is all 'as I learned it'....} A) In the US, the breaker is rated to protect the outlet: 20A outlet, 20A breaker, etc. B) Each plug/jack set is unique; this stops you from accidently putting 250 on the 125 power supply. But it also stops you from using a 20A plug in a 30A receptacle... C) Big exception: you can use 5-15R aka 15 amp receptacles on 20A circuits. Further, the 5-20 receptacles accept either 5-15 or 5-20 plugs. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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