Why do we use facilities with EPO's?

Wed Jul 25 19:02:58 UTC 2007

Leo Bicknell wrote:
> I was complaining to some of the power designers during the building
> of a major facility that the EPO button represented a single point
> of failure, and effectively made all of the redundancy built into
> the power system useless.  After all, what's the point of having
> two (or more) of anything, if there's one button somewhere that
> turns it all off?
>   
Seems like the EPO should be a logical AND with the fire alarm system - 
it only works AFTER you have an existing fire alarm in the building.

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