The Day the Music Stopped The Health and Illnesses of a Data Center, Part 2 Busway

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The Day the Music Stopped The Health and the Illnesses of a Data Center, Part 2: Busway

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It has been said “what can go wrong will go wrong”

•Costs and risks of installing power cables (whips)

in a live data center environment

•Costs and risks of installed busway and installing traditional busway

• Space restrictions, access easily blocked

• Difficulty adding and removing the plugs

• Poor connection of plug contact to the conductor surface, positional contact

of contact blade against flat surface

• Time for the installation is slower, due to weight, tightening of joints,

corrections

• What could go wrong? Loose Joints, heat build-up creating fire hazard, ,

workmanship, flaws, missed items during maintenance checks,

difficulty of putting plug on and off of the system

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Common Types of Busway / Busduct

Air-insulated

Isolated Phase Touch Contact

Ventilated

Starline Continuous Access

Sandwiched

Cast Resin

Segregated / Non-Segregated

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Feeder Bus – wrong choice for Rack power

Sandwich Busway – requires maintenance –

bolted joints, plug connection is a positional

contact of flat blade against a flat surface.

Difficult and time consuming to put plugs on.

Many companies require the system to be

turned off when putting plugs on for safety

purposes.

Cast Resin – much improved conductor

insulation but same maintenance and plug

connection limitations as Sandwich Busway.

Both Sandwitch and Cast Resin products

best applications are as feeder systems

where power supplied over distance with

limited connections.

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PLUG-IN BUSWAY

TRADITIONAL SANDWICHED BUSWAY

Plug-in Openings / Access (every 600mm apart)

Not Starline

Mounting positions easily blocked by anything. A bracket, or any physical obstruction prevents mounting of plug-in devices Maintenance is required on the feeder bus

systems. Fire hazard if have loose joints

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Sandwiched Busway Plug-in Units

(every 600mm apart)

TRADITIONAL BUSWAY INSTALLATION

Not Starline

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Starline vs Traditional Busway Joint

Male – Female Joint Contact Bridge

Removable Joint Coupler Starline - Boltless Joint

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Not Starline

• A lot of hardware in each device • Easy to change the phase or to Rotate the stab set Touch Contact System

Not Starline

Touch Contact System

Not Starline

Touch Contact System

• Maintenance free connections – Nothing to loosen • Rigid blade of paddle contact is embedded in U-shaped copper

in housing when installed on system

Not Starline Starline

Touch Contact System

Rigid Blade embedded in mating conductor, excellent connection

• Joint assembly materials for another continuous access busway. • Many, many parts and pieces required for assembly of housings • Screws to tighten, loosen and Maintain

• Can be difficult installation

Not Starline Touch Contact System

Joint Hardware (Not Starline)

Touch Contact System

Starline Busway Simply Stab-in JPE

• No Screws or bolts on the conductor connections

• Nothing to loosen • Best connection on the market • Fast Installation

Mechanical Spring Pressure Connection Principal

• Flexible , Reliable, Modular, Ease of installation and Promotes better operational performance

• Creates a maintenance-free connection.

Stab on Plug-In Paddle or Male end of busbar

U-Shaped Copper Conductor throughout busway length

Improving the Design and Performance of the Data Center

The ability to accelerate the changes without creating errors has huge advantages

Introducing systems that have beneficial performance and eliminate the maintenance difficulties and warranty issues.

To Be or Not To Be . . . Do decisions create honey or do you get stung?

Efficiencies can be added to the overall designs – the technology is available to simplify the architecture

Overhead mounting– either

access slot facing side-ways

or access slot facing down.

Under Floor – either access slot

facing side-ways or access slot

facing down.

Structured Power. All products have strengths and weaknesses.

Of Starline’s many strengths – The most important is the reliability

of the Joint construction. Starline has never had a loose joint on

this system.

Helps to eliminate Fire Hazards caused by loose wires

Operational Temperatures to 70 deg. C

Solutions

Starline enables the user to make changes without disturbing power to Server Racks in the same row.

Starline Track Busway and all components are easy to:

Install

Expand

Relocate

Reconfigure

Sustainable

These unique features make Starline Track Busway one of today’s most “Green” electrical products

• Flexibility: add/remove circuits in minutes instead of days

• LIVE PLUG IN: add/remove circuits without de-energizing load,

no changes in a live power panel

• Remove under floor cable air dams & reduces bypass airflow by

eliminating cable access holes (brushes, grommets' etc)

• Eliminates many problems associated with power distribution

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Simplifies the changing of the

loads to the racks

No abandoned or loose wires

High or low density, Overhead or underfloor mounting arrangements are available for your layout

System Components

Starline enables Plug-ins to be grouped together to meet site requirements

Starline critical power monitoring

End feed unit Monitoring

unit Plug-in unit

(no display)

Plug-in unit

(with display) Calibration for accuracy within 1% to meet ANSI Revenue Grade Standards

ModBus, Ethernet or Wireless connectivity

Starline: Underfloor or Overhead

Summary Advantages of StarLine

• Continuous access slot allows high

density and maximum flexibility

• Maintenance-free joints

• Plug and Play Live installation

• Flexible–quick change

• Customizable (Plugs & Busway)

• Applications include IT, Automotive, General Industry, Retail, Ballrooms, etc.

Available through Internationally Approved Resellers For Information on Starline Track Busway please contact: JPE Jelph Power Equipment Co. Pte Ltd, 11th Floor, Wisma Atria, 435 Orchard Road, Singapore 238877 Contact: Edward Hahn 65-9005-8214 ed.hahn@jelphpowerequipment.com