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Re: San Francisco Power Outage
From: "Ben Scott" <mailvortex () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:01:09 -0400
On 7/25/07, michael.dillon () bt com <michael.dillon () bt com> wrote:
... fire department evacuating the data center, cutting off electricity in the area, and forbidding the diesel generators to be switched on?
I know a guy who was at the US Data Centers Inc facility in Marlborough, MA (before USDCI failed). Soon after they first opened it up, they had a fire. The problem was the fire was *in* the giant APC/Silicon system they had. They had to kill the APC, and that took the load down too. So they installed an external transfer switch, rather than depending on the one built-in to the APC system. There was some SNAFU with the wiring, so right after the install, there was an electrical fire -- this time in the external transfer switch panel. While I suspect poor planning/testing contributed to their woes, it still goes to show: Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're the bug. -- Ben
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- Re: San Francisco Power Outage, (continued)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Michael Loftis (Jul 24)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Jonathan Lassoff (Jul 24)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Jason Matthews (Jul 25)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Paul Vixie (Jul 25)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET (Jul 24)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Brandon Galbraith (Jul 24)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Paul Vixie (Jul 24)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Stephen Wilcox (Jul 25)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage George William Herbert (Jul 24)
- RE: San Francisco Power Outage michael.dillon (Jul 25)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Ben Scott (Jul 26)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage David Lesher (Jul 25)
- RE: San Francisco Power Outage michael.dillon (Jul 25)
- Fw: Re: San Francisco Power Outage Fred Heutte (Jul 24)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage George William Herbert (Jul 25)