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Installing and Removing a Power Supply

Enterasys G-Series Hardware Installation Guide 2-5

Figure 2-1 Attaching the Brackets to the Switch (G3G124-24 with G3G-24TX IOM shown)

4. Usingyourmountinghardware,attachthefrontofthebracketstotherack.Tightensecurely.

Installing and Removing a Power Supply

ThefollowingpowersuppliesareavailabletobepurchasedfromEnterasysforinstallationonthe

G‐Seriesswitch.Followtheappropriateinstructionsinthissectiontoinstallyourcomponent(s):

•G3‐PWR,a400‐wattACpowersupply

•G3‐PWR‐POE,a1200‐wattACpowersupply

Powersuppliescanbemixedand

canbeusedasredundantornon‐redundant.Theswitchwill

supportafull15.4wattsofpowerto96portsinnon‐redundantpowermode,and9.4wattsof

powerto96portsinredundantpowermode.Bydefault,theG‐Seriesswitchissettooperatein

redundantmode.

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Whentwopowersuppliesareinstalled,thepowerfromeachisevenlydistributed.Ifonepower

supplyfails,thesecondpowersupplyassumestheload.

TheG3switchautomaticallyallotspowertothebaseboardandtoeachinstalledmodule.Each

component’spowerconsumptionissubtractedfromtheavailablepowerand

theremaining

powerisequallydistributedamonginstalledPoEmodules.APoEmodulemustbeallotteda

minimumof37wattstobeoperational.

RefertoAppendix AforpowerspecificationsofvariousG3components.For informationon

usingtheCLItosetthestatusofpowerredundancyandtoreview

systempowersettings,referto

theEnterasysG‐SeriesCLIReference.

BeawarethatwhenyoureceiveyourG‐Seriesswitch,acoverplatewillbeinplaceoverthePWR2

powersupplyslot,leavingPWR1openforyourconveniencewheninstallingthefirstpower

supply.

1 Screws 2 Rack-mount brackets

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