10 kiloamps (what an awesome word) @ 48V is a lot of servers.
Companies like Cisco were filling big warehouse buildings with servers. I saw an installation where emergency power would be supplied by diesel electric railroad locomotives that were fixed in place on concrete slabs. That's the kind of power we are talking about.
We also were selling to phone co new central offices and 27V systems to cell site installations. We sold our company before the whole internet and telecommunications bubble burst, in 2000 & 2001
The last engineering project I did was to design a lower cost 4KW 48v single supply. I turned the design over to the new owner company and it never got used.
I got us onto the "ground floor" of MosFET based switchmode power supplies. When we started HC Power Inc the established companies were still using bipolar transistors for their power devices, because they hadn't solved a problem with MosFET's. I turned to an old technology which wasn't as space efficient and there we were, in 1984, with the highest power MosFET based power converters on the market. That gave us a chance to build market base and grow before serious competition appeared. Several years later my business partner and I agreed that we wouldn't have stood a chance if we hadn't started when we did. If we had started a few years later we would have failed. At our biggest size we employed 300 people, in Irvine CA, USA. Can you say "right place, right technology, at the right time"? Let's hope this works for Zero as well.
For those who aren't familiar with the art, all of the power circuits, in our electric motorcycles, whether driving or charging, are based on MosFET's.
Trikester
BTW - I will be perfectly happy never designing another power converter switching regulator, or inverter again
I'm having too much fun using other engineer's designs. Go Zero!!!!!
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