[58748] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "They all suck!" Re: UPS failure modes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri May 30 15:13:49 2003
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 14:16:22 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: bmanning@karoshi.com
Cc: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>,
Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200305301904.h4UJ4H408578@karoshi.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
bmanning@karoshi.com wrote:
>
>
> for most sites I've seen, the 19" rack is too small
> for the monster array. they tend to use 23" racks
> and place the batts at the bottom - generally 3-6 hour
> runtime.
>
Yeah. A lot of the remote hardened equipment runs off small battery
arrays as well. During major power outages, look for the poor sucker
stuck with driving the circuit to keep them all charged.
-Jack
