RE: System utility power failed -- MIDRANGE-L

We were in the building.  This occurred 3 times between 7:00am and 2:00pm.
We didn't experience any surges or flickers of lights, etc in the office
area and the head of maintenance had nobody working on the power.  We asked
if there may be some new machine in the factory that may be drawing power
and he said that we were on our own line.  The UPS is a Best Power Ferrups
Series that is about 6 years old.  We are going to contact Best to see what
they say and go from there.  I'll also check to see if anyone is using a
vacuum in the computer room! Thanks to all who responded.  I'll let you know
how we make out.

Ed Chabot
The Marlin Firearms Company
100 Kenna Drive
North Haven, CT 06473
(203)985-3254

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of MacWheel99@aol.com
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 4:16 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: System utility power failed


What it tells me is that the power supply from your electric company had an
interruption & that your UPS was working Ok.  If your UPS was not working Ok
then you would not be seeing those messages because your AS/400 would be
down.

Was anyone in the building when you got the messages?
Did you have a power outage concurrently?
Do you have some independent way of telling if you had a real electric
company interuption or if it was something internal to your building's
wiring.

Do you have contractors in your building hooking up something & they might
have cut a wrong wire?

Can you trace how the electric power gets to your AS/400?
It could be that you have a new person flipping switches on building power
who is lacking in the department of on-the-job training.

For example, there are probably building circuit breakers on a power panel
in
which the power to most of the building is shut down at nite & restored in
the morning & there should be a clearly understandable sign on the one for
the computer room that it is not to be touched & who to notify in case of
emergency, but perhaps humaan error here with new user.

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)

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