[5398] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: generators, etc....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Lothberg)
Thu Oct 17 17:49:24 1996
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 96 14:57:05 MET DST
From: Peter Lothberg <roll@Stupi.SE>
To: "Patrick J. Chicas" <pjc@off-road.com>
Cc: "Mike O'Dell" <mo@UU.NET>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 14 Oct 1996 15:51:03 -1000 (HST)
> > Even when you have generators, there are still a myriad of things which
> > can and do go wrong no matter how hard you try, even with trebly
> > redundant backups, etc. etc.
> >
> > A fuel supplier accidently puts half a load of jet fuel instead of #2
> > diesel in your storage tank, which you won't find until it reloads the
> > run tank from the day tank.
>
> Run the generator under load periodically. Have your gen maintenance
> contractor do fuel tests quarterly. Water is just as bad in the Diesel
> tank.
This can be solved, it's a matter of logistics and procedures, when
did you last hear that an airline filled with diesel instead of Jet-A1?
-Peter
Before anyone statrs to build a very expensive pop, revisit the idea
of several locations and geograpghical diversity, as it is close to
defend a single locataion, a competing ISP could go around and
cut all your wires....
