it's a beautiful Saturday morning in May the Sun's shining a gentle breeze is
blowing and I've got big plans
to work and stay inside and finally fix our broken UPS yes my
friends the battery backup in our server room lit on fire and it has taken us
until now but we finally got it our
replacement unit from Eaton so we're going to be pulling that one out putting
this one in and all with the help of everyone's best friend Brian the
electrician Brian
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that we had our original UPS configured they kind of went number one you guys
did not have enough airflow around that unit they were they were particularly
unhappy about that number two there is absolutely no way to get this thing out
of there and get a new one in so we installed
magnetic doors into the back of the server room Isn't
that cool so they're these nice thick heavy doors so they actually still block
the sound in there extremely well but now we've got easy access so this is the
noise absorbing material that I have hazardly installed inside the server
room a little while back you might have noticed it only goes to about here
that's because this wall used to be the
back wall of the server room but the technician from Eaton came here and was
like hey you guys need to have a bunch of clearance behind the unit so we
ripped out this wallet which is great because it means I'm going to actually be able to put like some some bins and
stuff so I can have all of my server room specific cables and junk right back
here so I'm actually loving this uh okay so you're up dude how do we remove the
tack cable
eaten all but blamed our installer those
of you who were there will probably remember our installer because I
remember doing this but I don't remember doing this I mean I could be wrong
actually huh huh yeah I could be wrong I
use the top of the up ow I'm fine just that thing dropped on my
foot my perfectly adequately protected
foot I use the top of the UPS to store our cold spare 10 terabyte drives and
then apparently I've also got a network card there should probably put that back in inventory okay ow oh dang it
right now because our ups isn't running
we don't have enough circuits in this room so we're actually just grabbing
power from other circuits around the office and running extension cords in
here it's a super bad time actually we should just turn them off the craziest
thing about all these batteries is that if we have all the servers running Full
Tilt I think it only goes for like an hour Eaton actually worked out a pretty
nice deal for us even though we were slightly out of warranty they agreed to
cover the main unit as long as we bought
our own I think it was batteries which these were coming up on time to replace
them anyway so I think we had to we had to buy the warranty and service plan as
well just I don't know maybe they don't trust us the other part of the deal was
we had to talk through some of the things we did wrong to make sure that
other Eaton customers don't make the same mistakes the UPS trains are coming
hold on let me uh let me just lift up and over the cable oh this is the new
generation replacement for this
oh wow
yeah the bonfire going on in there do
you want to give us a short explanation of what we're looking at here what are
bus bars well they serve the same function as a wire it's just it's a lot
more convenient it's just a straight piece of metal and thick yeah and it
well not necessarily but some of them are yeah damn look at that one so
whatever happened here with these bus bars yeah they their connections likely
were loose and over time it right in
this case it looks like it just started to Arc and caught the PCB on fire now
that's another thing that Eaton gave me heck for because we should be having
this serviced I think it's either every six months or annually to make sure that
everything is hunky-dory inside so this is the kind of thing that a regular
service should have caught we mean by loose
though there isn't even a nut on them exactly where did that go there should be
Fasteners on there is it possible that that's something that is supposed to
happen at the time of installation but we just didn't know I don't think so
because again how would this thing go for three years with no Fasteners there
and not be an issue and keep in mind too that this being in place where the
electrician is supposed to tie in covers that generally yeah all the electrician
has to do is they enter the cable and tie it in right that's it anything else
is generally pre-done I can tell you now that Eaton blamed it on installer
failure okay and then you're looking at it blaming it on Eaton's failure yeah
well I see both sides of this because to
me what this looks like is Eaton's intent is for these to be either hooked
up or capped off by whoever's installing it and they say they're supposed to be
an eaten technician present or to check it over before you actually flip the
screen so we're doing that this time but I can see why you would look at this and
go well that's a colossally stupid design to not have these at least with
placeholder nuts on them yeah for any that I'm not actually connecting because
it's got this it's got this cover plate in place yeah where everything that I'm
supposed to hook up is here so what I'm supposed to open this up and make sure they put locking nuts on these things I
see it both ways this here is the 9pxm
it can be configured in uh let me see
yeah okay 4 8 12 16 and 20 kilovolt amp
configurations I guess they assume you're going to want at least one of the
Bays left for batteries or rather that's two so this is the 12 Bay unit we've
configured it in a oh man it's heavy in
a 12 kilovolt amp configuration so this right here list price is about nine
grand for the 12 kilovolt amp config you're
going to need three of these modular power modules that lists for about 11
Grand we've got six battery modules to take up the here we go the bottom three
sort of Bays here rather six Bays that's
worth about 2500 bucks and then rounding
out the configuration is our fifteen hundred dollar startup commission which
we are definitely paying this time the two thousand dollars for the warranty
and of course a six hundred dollar gigabit network card
they really do get you on that uh you
know Enterprise specialty stuff because let me tell you a gigabit network card
under normal circumstances would be worth about six dollars not six hundred
dollars is that a SIM card oh that kind of makes
sense if you wanted to have like always for sure definitely connectivity oh
that's really cool that brings our total to about thirty thousand dollars for
everything you see here but it's hard to say how reflective of the real world
that really is because these kinds of products are rarely sold at list price
in fact our invoice has like a list price and then a customer price and you
gotta remember that this is in Canadian monetary units so around back you can
see we've got these gorgeous 30 amp connectors over here I figured out what
ebm is for so that's if you want to get another one of these units and just have
it full of batteries so that might explain why you would do like a five
power module unit because you've just got like one giant one next to it that's
full of batteries getting access to the inside is as simple as opening up a
hinged door and they've switched from locking nuts to nuts and washers I
wonder if I'm the only one who ever had that issue while Brian is looking for a
hole saw big enough to put our Tech cable through the bottom of one of these
covers here I'm actually going to put on all the ones that we are not going to be
using foreign
attachment ever look at this thing it's an impact gimbal so you can get at a
tight spot like that that is so cool you have the coolest
toys I mean I have the coolest toys but you have the second coolest toys all
right should we put this in there oh that's not bad why you gotta emasculate
me like that you always do this
you specifically went around to the heavy side you could have just as easily
taken the light side or where it's equal oh God that's heavy
we can put it down now that's why I took the heavy Sidelines
we'll slide no problem no problem
good this is like cable management for men Cable Management I like that crazy
idea we drill this into some two by fours and
we're gonna lift it up by four inches yeah you have two by fours yes I have
two by fours is this palette have any two by fours in it oh you have a hammer
I can do it you can do something else don't supervise it's you with the tool
alumnus well yeah I didn't want to host the
video by myself hey got him
okay well let's see if it actually works before I congratulate myself too much
here you know your ring connector is Hardcore when you literally need a
hammer to tighten it I believe they do actually make like funky wrenches to
grab the lock nut great work Brian you know he's not even a real electrician
anymore yeah I do Refrigeration now
it's okay that's great though because he's going to help me air condition my house stay tuned for that make sure
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I ordered the wrong air conditioner twice here it is the 600 gigabit network
card an environmental monitoring probe gen 2. I don't remember paying for this
so this must just be something they sent because they were so unhappy about the deplorable conditions of the old one
maybe they're going to come by with the sensors and explain to us how this hooks
up well these are fancier than the old ones man those are deep
all right here we go these actually
double stack and then they are too wide in each bag that's cool so yeah this
thing is dense hey we got the room I replaced my six batteries with six
batteries thinking that like that'd be fine but yeah if I'm going one two three
power modules I could put another six batteries in this thing wait
what is this is this thing only half full
I mean assuming everything is the same capacity and they've got twice as many
cooling fans on them now I believe the old ones only had one cooling fan these
are these are enormous compared to the old ones so here's one of the old ones
this is by comparison absolutely Pinner
the difference in depth and height more than makeup for the uh
sort of skinnier profile that it has now that it's in I can see why they want
about six inches of space on this side because you can see the ventilation at
the back because of the AC output is kind of impeded and those fans from the
power modules which can only go on this side are pulling air in from the front
so what we should really be doing is shoving it over a little bit but the
problem as I noticed from the front is that it's not really movable anymore
really oh yeah there you go easy
shout out Brian okay these aren't actually plugged into anything we're not
going to be drawing any power from it so okay okay maybe back up a little
just in case no no you're gonna go Kaboom I'm gonna go Kaboom too let's do
it I'm not
all right well this one's definitely got some cooling fans in it yeah they're
they're goers but is it actually delivering any power all the switches on
the back here look like they're off okay load not powered press power button to
turn on hey the Fan's on online mode so
it works yes it does so you're going to be very tempted to uh move the whole
server rack onto this thing now aren't you very tempted not having a battery
backup has been making me very uncomfortable with the inspection done
it's move-in day this comes off the top
of the rack and goes back here in the back of the
server closet now all my excess hard drives so these are my cold spares in
case something fails and I need something to quickly throw in there to rebuild the array
and all the accessories for the Eaton UPS
actually these don't need their own box do they
uh does anyone have a Sharpie marker on them by any chance this is this was so awful and you can
pull this red one too to be clear I love power squids this is just I don't want
them in my server room and that's it everything's back on
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