RE: Power Outage story ...

["Bob Crothers" <bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cjg,

Natural Gas lines have been known to blow up.  And when they do,
they take a lot of other utilities with them...such as power
lines.

Just depends on how Uninterruptible you want to be!

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl
Galgano
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 8:51 AM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: Power Outage story ...
> 
> 
> Ken:
> We have 2 NG generators (one 20kva the other a 12kva).  One
runs the
> computer room, first going to a 13kva UPS that holds the room 
> up during the
> generator startup.  The other generator runs the 2 A/C units. 
>  Originally we
> had the AC on the same generator, but it cause the power to 
> be "dirty".  We
> test ours every week and have had several outages that have 
> been flawless.
> The NG generators are pretty quiet as well.  Baring an 
> earthquake, I like
> knowing we will always have fuel.
> cjg
>  
>  
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graap, Ken [mailto:keg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 2:32 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Power Outage story ...
> 
> 
> 
> Believe it or not, our generator is a tried and true diesel 
> generator... 
> That it failed during a monthly test and took everything with 
> it wasn't very
> 
> comforting, but at least the fire in the switch didn't 
> spread! Ha! We were 
> lucky that this was an "attended" test. 
> 
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