365 Main reason for outage report published

Fri Aug 3 02:40:49 UTC 2007

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:50:04PM -0400, J. Oquendo wrote:
> Sean Donelan wrote:
> >
> >
> >The 365 Main San Francisco data center has published its report 
> >concerning the outage on July 24 after a utility problem.
> >
> >http://www.365main.com/status_update.html
> >
> >Other data centers using Hitec backup generators will want to review 
> >the 365's report and those with specific Hitec controllers may want to 
> >update them.
> >
> >
> www.infiltrated.net/hitecDDEC.jpg

That JPEG is obscene!  ;-)

Register4Less recently reported a power failure in Montreal where the
return of a single cycle from the utility tricked generators into
shutting down all three cycles, throwing the data center onto UPS until
the batteries died.  They did not report make of generator or of the
board that failed them.

-- 
Joe Yao
Analex Contractor