RE: RE: Some fodder for marketing, perhaps

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   6. RE: RE: Some fodder for marketing, perhaps (Doug Hart)
>
>date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 21:21:44 -0500
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> I can't remember the model 170 but my home 50S still has internal
>batteries.  It stays up through short power outages fine.  I only have to
>reset the TCP networking because my router and switch go down.

Doug:

Internal batteries/UPS was my obvious first thought, but I haven't seen any 
indication before and we have a power drop every other month or so during 
fall/winter -- the system's een here three years. It's a little irritating that 
there wasn't a "Utility power lost/Utility power restored" set of messages for 
example. Hmmm... come to think of it, I don't recall if I created QSYSMSG... 
maybe I didn't look far enough. Since it didn't power off/on, I didn't worry 
enough to look deeper.

Guess I'll have to do some serious looking. Thanks for making me think.

Tom Liotta


>Which reminds me... I was at my PC at home sometime last weekend when a
>momentary power loss reset everything around me, including the PC. I waited
>for it to reboot and wandered around checking clocks and other electronic
>stuff. I wasn't concerned about my model 170 downstairs since I couldn't do
>anything about it right then if something was really out of whack and I was
>confident it would recover fine -- just as my PC was doing.
>
>That evening, I signed on at the console to check it out -- but I found no
>evidence of any interruption at all.
>
>I suppose the power ~could~ have somehow dropped only in half the house, but
>I've never seen that before and power is a fairly regular issue in my
>somewhat rural location.
>
>I'm not complaining. It just seems odd.