On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 15:42:04 +0100, "Brimstone"
 wrote:

>Mike P wrote:
>> Brimstone wrote:
>>> Steve Firth wrote:
>>>> Conor  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Really? So there's no fuses on the mains leads for the servers?
>>>>
>>>> Correct. There's nowhere for a fuse to go, since 13A plug tops are
>>>> not used. I don't know what you've seen but the word "amateur"
>>>> springs to mind.
>>>
>>> Are you suggesting that the supply has no fuse nor equivalent means
>>> of cutting the supply in the event of a fault?
>>
>> No, he's not.
>>
>As I thought, thanks for clarifying. 
>

An old school friend of mine had a recent project to design a mains
distribution system for racks of equipment on an oil platform.

There were no fuses, but the controller had to be able to identify a
single out of spec load out of dozens, and shut it down under software
control,  without affecting the others, and before it dragged the
whole bay down.

Derek