[91590] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone else lost power at Fisher Plaza this afternoon?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Smith)
Mon Aug 7 11:39:27 2006
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:38:29 -0700
From: "Michael K. Smith" <mksmith@adhost.com>
To: <frnkblk@iname.com>, Nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
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Hello Frank:
On 8/5/06 1:20 PM, "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk@iname.com> wrote:
>
> AFAIK, you don't need to have to have someone onsite to trip a breaker....if
> it doesn't do it automatically, there are a multitude of SCADA systems
> available to manuaully flip them on. Unless, of course, the
> electromechanical components that physically flip the breaker over have
> failed.
>
> Frank
>
I would tend to agree; I think the issue, however, was the breaker had
failed, so none of the systems in place were able to address it correctly.
The manual failover is a list-ditch attempt should all others fail.
Mike
