[42448] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Re[2]: telehouse - 25 broadway
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gwendolynn ferch Elydyr)
Sun Sep 16 17:25:31 2001
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 17:23:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gwendolynn ferch Elydyr <gwen@reptiles.org>
To: Brian Whalen <bri@sonicboom.org>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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No. Exodus runs standard generator testing, like any other company.
cheers!
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Brian Whalen wrote:
> Actually I think Exodus will run em for a week or two as a test..
>
> Brian "Sonic" Whalen
> Success = Preparation + Opportunity
>
>
> On 15 Sep 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm sure a full analysis will be performed after the recovery
> > efforts are completed. I'm also certain the operators of
> > both 25 Broadway and 32 Old Slip are working very dilgently
> > to get them running.
> >
> > But I would like to point out, no one regularly runs their
> > generators for 48+ hours as part of a normal test. In addition,
> > most standby generators are fitted only for "limited" duration
> > runs. You should expect problems during any extended run of a
> > generator plant. I'm a bit surprised that 25 Broadway and
> > 32 Old Slip are the only ones we've heard about.
> >
> > Until I know a bit more about what happened, I can't say
> > whether any alternative design could have performed better.
> >
> > On Sat, 15 September 2001, Joe McGuckin wrote:
> > > 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 ?
> >
> >
>
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