[Milsurplus] IBM Bladecenter 74P4401

Ryan Gill rmgill at mindspring.com
Thu Sep 22 18:37:04 EDT 2011


At 6:16 PM -0400 9/22/11, Clare Owens wrote:
>Mine arrived today, free FedEx ground from NY to NC took two days.  Looks
>brand new and weighs about three pounds.  Doing the Google search on
>DPS-1600BB +manual did not yield any detailed info.  I did get the IBM blade
>server manual but it just shows where the supplies go in the server.  I have
>to get an IEC C19 power cord and then I can experiment.  I suspect it may
>not power up by itself.  There is a grid of tiny pins that connect to the
>server chassis along with the eight hefty slide on connectors and I imagine
>that IBM has implemented some sort of an interlock to  enable/disable the
>supply.  But maybe not, we'll see.

The power supplies HAVE to power up to energize the onboard system electronics. Perhaps it's as simple as a passthrough on the pins to a switch interlock?
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