Anyone else lost power at Fisher Plaza this afternoon?
Jim Popovitch
jimpop at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 4 16:30:57 UTC 2006
Michael K. Smith wrote:
> It was a breaker in the main bypass from city power to the generators. The
> breaker failed to close so the generators happily fed power to nowhere.
> Then, everyone's UPS failed and down we/they went. The outage lasted
> approximately 26 minutes.
Nobody checked to make sure that at least one of the UPSs showed a
status of "ONLINE" instead of "ONBATTERY"? Were there no UPSs
configured to alert during continued and extended PF? Surely people
didn't just trust the sound/vibration of the running generator.
-Jim P.
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