[98236] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason LeBlanc)
Thu Jul 26 15:42:00 2007
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:40:37 -0400
From: Jason LeBlanc <jml@packetpimp.org>
To: Jerry Pasker <jerry@jerry.org>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <a06200704c2cd6636eaa7@[65.199.121.175]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I do. Hurricane Wilma, blew the roof off our building, water pouring in
pooling under the floor and onto the PDUs and UPS (800amps of 480v). We
wanted to save the data on the servers, had to hit the EPO to enter the
room (anyone have an idea of how far that much power would arc?). It
was STILL quite scary since the batteries were still charged, I actually
flipped the breaker on the UPS. Not fun to be around that much power
when there is a lot of water. Only time I've ever seen an EPO hit in
person.
Jerry Pasker wrote:
>
> I've always wondered who died or was injured and caused the EPO to
> come in to existence. There have been lots of "EPO caused downtime"
> stories, but does anyone on the NANOG list even have one single "Thank
> God for the EPO" story? I'll feel better about the general state of
> the world if I know that the EPO actually has a real valid use that
> has been ACTUALLY PROVEN IN PRACTICE rather than just in someone's mind.
>
>
> -Jerry <----Is so anti EPO, he has no remote EPO buttons, and even
> has the irrational fear about the jumper on the "EPO terminal strip"
> inside his UPSes coming undone.
>
