[42421] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re[2]: telehouse - 25 broadway
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe McGuckin)
Sat Sep 15 23:36:40 2001
From: Joe McGuckin <joe@monk.via.net>
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Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:35:31 -0700 (PDT)
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Was this unit tested regularly? With a load bank?
If there was a weekly test run, why wasn't this problem caught?
It seems like there's a lesson to be learned here.
My guess is that many sites' idea of a periodic test is to fire up the
generator (without a load) for 5 or ten minutes and assume everything's ok.
How many folks actually perform a load transfer to the generator during
testing to check out the transfer switch ?
Joe
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