[29237] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: San Francisco power outages imminent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Thu Jun 15 01:09:58 2000
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:38:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>
To: Wayne Bouchard <web@typo.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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> Actually, thats another question I am somewhat interested in.. what
> are the policies of various people on testing and excercising
> generators and other backup equipment?
We run our gensets for five minutes on line gas, and five minutes
on tank gas, each week, and test a hot cut-over (exercising the
batteries and transfer switches as well) once a month.
> How many customers ask about
> such things before locating equipment vs just asking "do you have
> backup power?"
Only once that I can recall.
-Bill
