Agreed, but some of us with smaller business cant afford to do that. Our
generators (2) do support just about everything in our data center, and our
DC is in a stand alone office condo. I think the only thing not on is the
"house" A/C system. We use a 25kva generator to run our DC thru a 14 kva
UPS. Our other generator runs the 2 AC units for the DC. We found it
better to separate the AC load from the data center racks, iseries, servers,
etc. The generator that AC units are attached to, do not go thru a UPS, its
OK if they are down for 2 minutes.
Our setup got called into action last night. I got an outage message from
our weather duck saying we lost electrical power. I was at my office within
5 minutes (nice to live close) and mysteriously found power on the outside
lights of the parking lot. Our other condo unit where our offices were also
had power. After about an hour or head scratching and calling the power
company I found that someone (vandal, kids with nothing to do), pulled the
main outside disconnect on our data center office condo and two others in
the complex. A simple flip of the switch took care of the issue.
While we have run on generator for up to 8 hours before, we have not in
quite a while, so it is nice to see when everything works as planned. None
of our customers missed a beat. I think we have about 12-15K tied up in the
generators, the auto transfer switches and the install (panels, etc), but
they are worth every penny.
cjg
Carl J. Galgano
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
770-422-2995
www.ediconsulting.com
600 Kennesaw Avenue
Suite 400
Marietta, GA 30060
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Hence why our generator is designed to support the whole building. If
you're down for a week it would be nice to flush the toilets (well water),
run the air conditioning (or risk losing the computers to heat), and a
thousand other things you take for granted.
Rob Berendt
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Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com
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WOW Greg - no lie. The best of plans, eh ? Hard to think of everything for
sure. What a nightmare.
Chuck
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Dave,
We had the same type of scheduled power outage here for an electrical
upgrade in the factory.
We brought in a generator to feed power to our UPS to keep all of the
computers running for our other sites.
The computers were the only things receiving any power. Unfortunately
we forgot about the sump pump and after about 24 hours of being off
water came into our office and was only inches from the computer racks
when it was discovered.
It was quite a circus to stop it and clean it up without power or
lights.
Our very bad mistake.
Greg
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