[98185] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Radabaugh)
Wed Jul 25 16:24:36 2007
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:02:58 -0400
From: Mark Radabaugh <mark@amplex.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070725160747.GB75636@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Leo Bicknell wrote:
> I was complaining to some of the power designers during the building
> of a major facility that the EPO button represented a single point
> of failure, and effectively made all of the redundancy built into
> the power system useless. After all, what's the point of having
> two (or more) of anything, if there's one button somewhere that
> turns it all off?
>
Seems like the EPO should be a logical AND with the fire alarm system -
it only works AFTER you have an existing fire alarm in the building.
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Mark Radabaugh
Amplex
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mark@amplex.net
