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The same APC Power Distribution Unit (APC7900) should be capable of accepting 230v, 208v, and 115v power

The Pure Storage All-Flash array is extremely green, consuming only 10 amps at 115 volts (1150 watts, which is less than a hair dryer or even a toaster oven).  This is readily demonstrated by the amperage LED on the APC7900.  The problem is retrofitting our shipping demonstration racks for the 'power du jour', which is proving to be quite time consuming.  The APC7920 is 200/208/230 volt capable, but provides C13 output receptacles instead of 5-15R.  Of course, I could keep 21 - C14 to 5-15R adapters on-hand, and swap out the APC7900 for APC7920 for venues that have 208/230 volt power, but it would be so much easier if the APC7920 would simply step down to 115 volt power, allowing me to adapt its input rather than adapt all 21 items in each half-rack.  At $500/each (and 3 per rack) seems awfully wasteful to buy a complete replacement set, not to mention the labor in swapping them out.  I could step down from 208/230 to 115 volt, but then I would give up the more visually appealing 5 ampere display when 230 volt power is available, despite the fact its an identical wattage (1150) to 10 amps at 115 :)

Suggestions for an alternative to the APC, that has an amperage LED?
Stardate 2011.8669, USS Pure Storage

I'm quite pleased with the simplicity of Xataface.  Except for a couple minor bugs discovered with selection lists (doesn't allow using zero as an option value), had it up and running in a matter of minutes.  The structure of the fields.ini and valuelists.ini optional files just plain makes sense:

# more cpu/fields.ini 
[active]
widget:type = select
vocabulary = yesno


[oem_id]
widget:type = select
vocabulary = oem_id


[hyperthreading]
widget:type = select
vocabulary = yesno
#
# more cpu/valuelists.ini 
[oem_id]
__sql__ = "select id,name from oem where active=1 order by name"

[yesno]
1 = "Yes"
2 = "No"
#