RE: An unexpected lights out operation

Amen. Although my voltage does not seem to fluctuate quite so much, at
least once a week my UPS kicks in. The drop is so quick and resumes so
quickly that I only see the little APC Windoze agent saying "You are back on
utility power". (In fact, it just did this 2 minutes ago, while composing
an off-line reply to Phil P.)

One key is to keep up to date on preventative maintenance, so when that
backhoe with the special buried-utility-seeking option finds its goal, you
can at least shut down gracefully.

Later,
Ray

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:IBM-MAIN@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Craddock, Chris
Sent: Tuesday May 16 2006 14:58
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Subject: Re: An unexpected lights out operation

Wow. One can only dream about such a stable commercial supply. Since
the
event I wrote about, we already have had one hit big enough
to trigger
the generator. It is the rare month the generator does not earn its
keep. The UPS log of minor hits is quite lengthy.

Here in southeast Texas the mains power supply is (ahem)
"Flaky" to be charitable. Call me a nerd, but I have multiple
UPS' here in my home and they bleep constantly because of
line voltage fluctuations. Then there are the lovely
thunderstorms that take out the power with some monotonous
regularity. In this area, you'd have to be nuts to run
without UPS for any sized business that had
availability/business continuity requirements more demanding
than my home network.


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