It’s not that dangerous. They make strippers that will only take off the outer insulation, and then you can use vampire taps on the wires.
Or you might be able to pop the case and jump the power on the DC side. You could easily do that on an ATX power supply, but servers are a little more complicated, because hotplug PSUs use wafer connectors instead of molex plugs.
timwa@lemmy.snowgoons.ro 2 weeks ago
I just read the manual for the Euro version; basically, they assume you take the power strip/PDU with the computer.
So, you plug the special UPS into a spare outlet on the PDU; it monitors the power supply, and as soon as power from the PDU drops it jumps in and starts supplying. So plug into an outlet, then unplug the PDU from power, and the UPS takes over. Since at this point the pins on the PDU plug are live, they provide a safety cap to put over the end of the cable. The computer itself is never unplugged.