APC NetShelter Rack PDU Advanced Gen 2, Metered, 3Phase, 43.5kW 400V 63A or 34.6kW 415V 60A, 560P6, 42 Outlet

Product Overview

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This APC NetShelter Rack PDU Advanced Gen 2 is the sort of “set it and forget it” power management kit you buy when you’re tired of guessing which circuit is overloaded or troubleshooting power issues without any visibility. Metered 3‑phase is ideal for offices, server rooms, and training/lab environments where uptime matters and you want actionable stats (at least at the outlet/circuit level) for capacity planning and incident response. The price (£2.7k ex‑VAT) is not cheap, but it is pretty defensible if you’re standardising racks and care about not turning power monitoring into a manual spreadsheet exercise.

Who should buy: anyone running multiple racks on shared power, with mixed loads (servers, networking, storage) and a need to track consumption properly—especially if your team has to answer “what’s drawing power and where?” during audits or outages. Who should *not* buy: small installs with one or two racks, or buyers who mainly need basic on/off distribution and don’t have the process to use the metering data. In those cases, you’ll likely get better value by choosing a simpler, non-metered or single-phase alternative—because the PDU won’t magically improve operations unless you’ll actually monitor and act on it.