I'm looking for something to help me out with having to run so many power whips. I have a suite that needs 12 power whips and another that needs 20 power whips so I'm trying to get something neat and effective.I'm dense but why? There's plenty of reputable pdu vendors. Not saying these guys aren't but there's big players in the market.
If only the starline bus system wasn’t so darn expensive. I’m going to look on amazon or eBay to see if I can find anything used under market value.Not sure how painfully expensive they are at small scale, but modular busways like these are quite common in new build-outs in colos Flexible Power Electrical Busbar System | Starline Busway you may be able to pick them up on the used market.
Also with a low ceiling like that, if your PDU's have a long enough entry cord and you are pulling power from above you can have your electrician install a normal tray with the locking outlets above, or horizontal with a ladder rack below that you can use to attach the PDU entry cable to for strain relief.
The other option is put a breaker panel in that room and just run the whips from the panel. 40-50 whips isn't bad.
Something like this?Not sure how painfully expensive they are at small scale, but modular busways like these are quite common in new build-outs in colos Flexible Power Electrical Busbar System | Starline Busway you may be able to pick them up on the used market.
Also with a low ceiling like that, if your PDU's have a long enough entry cord and you are pulling power from above you can have your electrician install a normal tray with the locking outlets above, or horizontal with a ladder rack below that you can use to attach the PDU entry cable to for strain relief.
The other option is put a breaker panel in that room and just run the whips from the panel. 40-50 whips isn't bad.
I'm going to go this route. Do you know any idea to monitor the power going into the breaker panel? Before the PDU?Yeah something like that could work fine. Do a sub-panel for each 200/400A circuit coming into the room and then your 20/30/50A breakers in the panel and MC to pendants or a pre-built PDU whip off of the breaker in the panel and over to the rack.
It is a very common setup in colos, they just tend to have the panels of breakers in an adjacent room or on the edge of the room and run longer lines from the panels to above/below the customer racks depending on the design of the room. I have been in a number of palces with stand-alone 800A panels on each end of a row of racks as well, and when you provision a circuit pair they run MC to a pair of outlets above the rack in the power tray/ladder rack over to the 2 closest panels with enough capacity free since they are laid out as A B A B so you don't need to go far for redundant power lines. Overkill for your app but what you have in mind is similar to what a lot of places have done is all.
I want to monitor 2 suites with 1 sub breaker each from a central location about 40 ft away in my office. Without having to put a $1,000 switch metered pdu for each whip having 4 in each suite.How accurate , lots of cheaper clamp meter option that you can use