[60690] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Battery lifetimes RE: East Coast outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tancsa)
Thu Aug 14 22:40:10 2003
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:09:32 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0308141952390.17292-100000@clifden.donelan.c
om>
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Thanks. A couple of people told me that the target is 8hrs for Bell Canada
huts. So hopefully some power will make it there before long. Not sure how
well they will prioritize what huts to charge with portable gensets. I
imagine they dont of course have a portable genset for every hut out there.
---Mike
At 08:00 PM 14/08/2003 -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
>Of course it varies from location to location. Generally, after 8-12
>hours we will start seeing infrastructure problems as remote batteries
>run down. Providers will be re-charging batteries with portable
>generators, but predicting battery lifetimes is as much art as science.
>Sometimes the battery doesn't last as long as predicted.
