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Re: Anyone else lost power at Fisher Plaza this afternoon?


From: "Michael K. Smith" <mksmith () adhost com>
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:38:29 -0700


Hello Frank:


On 8/5/06 1:20 PM, "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk () iname com> wrote:


AFAIK, you don't need to have to have someone onsite to trip a breaker....if
it doesn't do it automatically, there are a multitude of SCADA systems
available to manuaully flip them on.  Unless, of course, the
electromechanical components that physically flip the breaker over have
failed.

Frank

I would tend to agree; I think the issue, however, was the breaker had
failed, so none of the systems in place were able to address it correctly.
The manual failover is a list-ditch attempt should all others fail.

Mike


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