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RE: San Francisco Power Outage

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Wed Jul 25 00:17:29 2007

From: "Alex Rubenstein" <alex@nac.net>
To: "nanog" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <1185325079.2259.8.camel@localhost>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:50:59 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


> > Sad that the little Telcove DC here in Lancaster, PA, that Level3
> > bought a few months ago, has weekly full-on generator tests where
> > 100% of the load is transferred to the generator, while apparently
> > large DCs that are charging premium rates, do not.
> 
> Perhaps they do.  Wouldn't have mattered in this case if the
> big-red-button rumor is real.  ;-)

Also, doing a "full-on generator test where 100% of the load is transferred"
is not always the best option.

Unneeded usage of VRLA's only shortens their lives.



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