Re: Cards fried by Best Fortress UPS {was Year 2000 Crash}

Carl, James, et al,

In a message dated 97-06-10 16:46:03 EDT, you write:

> James, you might not loose sleep over it, but I would worry. The
>  way the Fortress is initially configured (assuming you haven't changed
>  the setpoints), you should be protected against both under and over
>  voltages. I'm sorry you had this incident; one is one too many.

That must have be one HECK of a surge!  I have a client that, until March,
was running an old 5363 S/36.  They moved to a brand-new building in which
one of the transformers was somehow mis-wired.  Ever seen one one of the
original Star Trek episodes (Kirk and Spock) where they're taking damage and
you get those loud "WHUMP" sounds followed by puffs of smoke coming out of
various consoles all over the bridge?  That's how it was all over their 20K
square-foot customer service area!

The plastic casing of their BEST system melted TO THE FLOOR, but there was no
damage to their 5363.  I was EXTREMELY impressed, and cannot IMAGINE what it
would take to actually cause damage...

JMHO,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@AOL.COM

"I think of life as a good book.  The more you get into it, the more it
begins to make sense." -- Harold S. Kushner
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