I just purchased a few PowerEdge 1750 and 2650 servers. After I shutdown they systems the power supplies get real warm. What is causing this? I have a few PowerEdge 1650's that don't have this problem. Is it a setting I need to configure? I completely shutdown the system in Windows, its not going into standby mode.
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Dell PowerEdge 1750/2650 Power Supply Issues
- Thread starter traydeezy
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We had the same results when we shutdown our PE2650's (33 of them). After talking with a Dell rep, I am under the impression that this is the nature of the beast. Even though you could come pretty close to frying an egg on the top of the box when it is off. We have had these servers in production for a little over 9 months now with very minimal problems. And when they are running they stay cool. I guess that in a real time world a server should never really be shutdown and just sitting, at least none of ours ever are. If the server is just going to be sitting in a shutdown state for any length of time, I would suggest pulling the power cords. Here is what one other person had to say about the PE2650's and there PS's.
The PE2650 utilizes two hot-plug 500W power supplies in a 1+1 configuration. They connect directly to the Planar to provide power to the planar where it is distributed through out the entire system. Power is "soft-switched" thorugh the front button or management SW. The 1+1 refers that each 500w PS can independently power the system; but even with 2 PS the total output power never exceeds 500w since the planar manages it, so in essence it is 'load balanced' by the planar. You can see it in action by hot swapping a power supply; i.e. the server continues to run and there is no cutover time. Similiar techniques are used in 2500/6450/6650/etc but the larger servers typically run a "N+1" scheme, where you can lose one of the power supplies
and the surviving 2 can power it.
FarOut
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The PE2650 utilizes two hot-plug 500W power supplies in a 1+1 configuration. They connect directly to the Planar to provide power to the planar where it is distributed through out the entire system. Power is "soft-switched" thorugh the front button or management SW. The 1+1 refers that each 500w PS can independently power the system; but even with 2 PS the total output power never exceeds 500w since the planar manages it, so in essence it is 'load balanced' by the planar. You can see it in action by hot swapping a power supply; i.e. the server continues to run and there is no cutover time. Similiar techniques are used in 2500/6450/6650/etc but the larger servers typically run a "N+1" scheme, where you can lose one of the power supplies
and the surviving 2 can power it.
FarOut
V-Peace-V
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