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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

It used to be a hospital

So they had the 73k square foot building backed by this bad boy:




27 Liter, Cat 3412 V12 Diesel with a 380kW gen set. 540hp at 2100RPM, thats 1350 lbs of torque, baby.

Sadly, after I'm done with the electrical design this sucker will no longer have much purpose. No Operating Rooms to keep online, no lights to feed (they are going to battery packs)... just a few boiler igniters, the battery charger and block heater (although, erm, those aren't needed while its running...), the fire alarm control panel, and one elevator.

I guess someone could run a massive data farm up in that piece if they wanted... Don't remember the numbers offhand but I think hospitals have to keep something like 24 hours of fuel on hand. At roughly 10gph (going by the 1gph/50hp rule-of-thumb) I'd think they would have more.

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Ballin' at work.