- It's a beautiful Saturday morning in May.
The sun's shining, a gentle breeze is blowing
and I've got big plans,
to come to work and stay inside
and finally fix our broken UPS.
Yes my friends, the battery backup
in our server room lit on fire
and it has taken us until now,
but we finally got it, our replacement unit from Eaton,
so we're gonna be pulling that one out,
putting this one in and all with the help of
everyone's best friend, Brian, The Electrician.
♪ Brian the electrician ♪
♪ He's electrifying and helpful ♪
♪ Such a helpful man ♪
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So Eaton had some complaints about the way
that we had our original UPS configured.
They kinda went, number one,
you guys did not have enough airflow around that unit.
They were particularly unhappy about that.
Number two, there is absolutely no way to get
this thing out of there and get a new one in.
So, we installed magnetic doors
into the back of the server room.
Isn't that cool?
So they're these nice, thick, heavy doors
so they actually still block the sound
in there extremely well, but now we've got easy access.
So this is the noise absorbing material
that I haphazardly installed inside
the server room a little while back,
you might've noticed, it only goes to about here.
That's because this wall used to be
the back wall of the server room,
but the technician from Eaton came here
and was like "Hey, you guys need to have
a bunch of clearance behind the unit."
so we ripped out this wall, which is great,
'cause it means I'm gonna actually be able
to put like some bins and stuff,
so I can have all of my server room specific cables
and junk right back here.
So I'm actually loving this.
Okay so, you're up dude, how do we remove the tag cable?
Now something I actually didn't tell Brian
is that Eaton all but blamed our installer.
Those of you who were there
will probably remember our installer.
- 'Cause I remember doing this,
but I don't remember doing this.
- I mean I could be wrong actually.
- Huh? - Huh, yeah, I could be wrong.
I used the top of the UP, Ow, I'm fine,
just that thing dropped on my foot.
My perfectly adequately protected foot.
I use the top of the UPS to store
our cold spare 10 terabyte drives
and then apparently I've also got a network card there,
should probably put that back in inventory.
Okay, Ow, aw dangit!
Right now, because our UPS isn't running
we don't have enough circuits in this room.
So we're actually just grabbing power
from other circuits around the office
and running extension cords in here, its a super bad time.
Actually, we should just turn them off.
The craziest thing about all these batteries
is that if we have all the servers running full tilt,
I think it only goes for like an hour.
Eaton actually worked out a pretty nice deal for us.
Even though we were slightly out of warranty
they agreed to cover the main unit
as long as we bought our own, I think it was, batteries,
which these were coming up
on time to replace them anyway so.
And I think we had to buy warranty and service plan as well
just, I dunno, maybe they don't trust us.
The other part of the deal was we had to talk through
some of the things we did wrong to make sure
that other Eaton customers don't make the same mistakes.
The UPS trains a'coming, choo choo.
Hold on, lemme just lift up and over the cable.
This is the new generation replacement for this.
(laughing in disbelief)
- [Brian] You had a bonfire going on in there.
- Do you wanna give us a short explanation
of what we're looking at here.
What are busbars?
- Well, they serve the same function as a wire
its just it's a lot more convenient.
Its just a straight piece of metal and
- Thick - yeah, well not necessarily.
- Well some of them are.
Like damn, look at that one.
- [Brian] Though whatever happened here with these busbars,
their connections likely were loose
and over time, in this case, it looks like
it just started to hurt and caught the PCB on fire.
- Now that's another thing that Eaton gave me heck for,
because we should be having this serviced
I think it's either every six months or annually
to make sure that everything is hunky dory inside.
So this is the kind of thing
that a regular service should of caught.
What do you mean by loose though,
there isn't even a nut on them.
- [Brian] (laughing) Exactly.
Where did that go?
There should be fasteners on there.
- Is it possible that that's something
that is supposed to happen at the time of installation,
but we just didn't know?
- I don't think so, 'cause again,
how would this thing go for three years
with no fasteners there and not be an issue.
And keep in mind too that this being in place
where the electrician is supposed
to tie in covers that generally.
All the electrician has to do is,
they enter the cable and tie it in, that's it.
Anything else, is generally pre-done.
- I can tell you now that Eaton
blamed it on installer failure.
- Okay. - And then you're looking
at it blaming it on Eaton's failure.
- Yeah.
- Well, I see both sides of this.
'Cause to me what this looks like
is Eaton's intent is for these to be
either hooked up or capped off by whoever's installing it
and they say there's supposed to be
an Eaton technician present or to check it over
before you actually flip the switch.
So we're doing that this time.
But I can see why you would look at this
and go, well that's a colossally stupid design
to not have these at least with placeholder nuts on them
for any of that I'm not actually connecting
'cause its got this cover plate in place
where everything that I'm supposed to hook up is here
so what, I'm supposed to open this up
and make sure they put locking nuts on these things.
I see it both ways.
This here is the 9PXM, it can be configured in,
let me see, yup, okay, four, eight,
12, 16 and 20 kilovolt amp configurations.
I guess they assume you're gonna want at least
one of the bays left for batteries or rather, that's two.
So this is the 12 bay unit.
We've configured it in a, man it's heavy,
in a 12 kilovolt amp configuration.
So this right here, list price,
is about nine grand (gasping)
for the 12 kilovolt amp config
you're gonna need three of these modular power modules.
That lists for about 11 grand.
We've got six battery modules to take up the,
here we go, the bottom three sort
of bays here or rather, six bays.
That's worth about 2500 bucks
and then rounding out the configuration
is our $1500 startup commission,
which we are definitely paying this time.
The $2000 for the warranty
and of course a $600 gigabit network card.
They really do getcha on that,
you know, enterprise specialty stuff because let me tell ya,
a gigabit network card under normal circumstances
would be worth about $6, not $600.
Is that a sim card?
Oh that kinda makes sense, if you wanted to have
like always, for sure, definitely connectivity,
aw that's really cool.
That brings our total to about $30,000
for everything you see here,
but it's hard to say how reflective
of the real world that really is
because these kinds of products
are rarely sold at list price.
In fact, our invoice has like a list price
and then a customer price
and you gotta remember that this
is in Canadian monetary units, so.
Around back you can see we've got
these gorgeous 30 amp connectors over here.
I figured out what EVM is for,
so that's if you wanna get another one of these units
and just have it full of batteries,
so that might explain why you would do like,
a five power module unit, because you've just got
like one giant one next to it that's full of batteries.
Getting access to the inside is as simple as
opening up a hinged door.
And they've switched from locking nuts
to nuts and washers.
I wonder if I'm the only one who ever had that issue?
While Brian's looking for hole saw big enough
to put our tech cable through the bottom
of one of these covers here,
I'm actually going to put on all the ones
that we are not gonna be using.
(drilling)
That is the coolest drill attachment ever,
look at this thing.
Its an impact gimbal,
so you can get at tight spot, like that.
That is so cool, you have the coolest toys.
I mean, I have the coolest toys
but you have the second coolest toys.
All right, should we put this in there.
- Aw that's not bad. - Why you gotta
emasculate me like that?
You always do this.
You specifically went around to the heavy side,
you could of just as easily taken the light side
or one of these sides - You can take the heavy side.
- Or where it's equal.
Oh God that's heavy, we can put it down now.
(laughing)
- That's why I took the heavy side on this.
- We'll slide, no problem!
No problem buds, it's all good.
this is like cable management for men.
Cable-men-agment.
- (laughing) I like that.
- Crazy idea, we drill this into some two by fours
and we lift it up by four inches.
- Yeah, you have two by fours?
- Yes I have two by fours!
Does this pallet have any two by fours in it?
Oh, you have a hammer.
I can do it, you can do something else,
don't supervise.
- Its you with a tool, that's (laughing)
- Well yeah, I didn't wanna host the video by myself.
Eh got em!
'Kay, well lets see if it actually works
before I congratulate myself too much here.
You know your ring connector is hardcore
when you literally need a hammer to tighten it.
- [Brian] I believe they do actually make
like funky wrenches to grab the locknut.
- Great work Brian.
You know he's not even a real electrician anymore.
- I do refrigeration now (laughing).
- Its okay, that's great though
'cause he's gonna help me air condition my house.
Stay tuned for that, make sure you're subscribed,
its gonna be great.
I ordered the wrong air conditioner, twice.
Here it is, the $600 gigabit network card.
An environmental monitoring probe gen 2.
I don't remember paying for this
so this must just be something they sent
'cause they were so unhappy about
the deplorable conditions of the old one.
Maybe they're gonna come by with the sensors
and explain to us how this hooks up.
Well these are fancier than the old ones.
Man those are deep.
All right, here we go.
These actually double stack and then
they are two wide in each bin.
- That's cool! - So yeah,
this thing is dense!
- [Brian] Hey, if you've got the room.
- I replaced my six batteries with six batteries
thinking that like, that'd be fine.
But yeah, if I'm going one, two, three power modules
I could put another six batteries in this thing.
Wait, what is this?
Is thing only half full?
(laughing)
- I mean, assuming everything is the same capacity.
- And they've got twice as many cooling fans on them now,
I believe the old ones only had one cooling fan.
These are enormous compared to the old ones.
So here's one of the old ones,
this is by comparison absolutely thinner.
The difference in depth and height
more than make up for the,
sort of skinnier profile that it has.
Now that its in I can see why they want
about six inches of space on this side
because you can see the ventilation of the back
'cause of the AC output is kind of impeding
and those fans from the power modules,
which can only go the side are pulling air in
from the front so what we should really be doing
- Moving it to the center. - Is shoving it over
a little bit but the problem as I notice
from the front is that its not really movable anymore.
Really!
Aw yeah, there you go, easy.
(laughing)
Shut up Brian!
'Kay these aren't actually plugged into anything
we're not gonna be drawing any power from it so.
- Maybe back up a little, just in case.
- No no, if you're gonna go kaboom,
I'm gonna go kaboom too, lets do it.
- [David] I'm not.
- All right, well this ones definitely
got some cooling fans in it, they're goers.
But is it actually delivering any power?
- All the switches on the back here look like they're off.
- Okay, load not powered, press power button to turn on.
- Eh, the fans on! - Online mode, so it works!
- Yes it does.
So you're gonna be very tempted to move
the whole server rack onto this thing now, aren't you?
- Very tempted, not having a battery backup
has been making me very uncomfortable.
With the inspection done, it's moving day.
This comes off the top of the rack and goes back here
in the back of the server closet now.
All my excess hard drives, so these are my cold spares
in case something fails and I need something
to quickly throw in there to rebuild the array.
And all the accessories for the Eaton UPS.
Actually these don't need their own box do they?
Ah, does anyone have a Sharpie marker on them by any chance?
This was so awful.
And you can pull this red one too.
To be clear, I love power squids,
this is just, I don't want them in my server room.
And that's it, everything's back on
and battery backed up.
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If you guys enjoyed this video maybe check out the one
where Brian and I install a car charger in my garage.
That one was lots of fun.