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Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's?
From: Roy <r.engehausen () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:43:17 -0700
John C. A. Bambenek wrote:
Funny story about that and the EPO we have here... ...
Story #1 Many years ago, the safety department for my employer made a big stink over the fact that the EPO hadn't been tested in a couple of years. We scheduled an outage window, shut everything down. The facilities guy pressed the magic big RED button and NOTHING! Tracing the problem back, there was a blown fuse in the EPO circuit because a wire had shorted. A real safe design! Story #2 Every few years the EPO buttons would change. First they were the ones with the metal ring around the button that protects against accidental pushing. Then we would get the mushroom button because it was "safer". Invariably someone would trip it and they would change them back. I think some guy made some money submitting suggestions to change the button every few years.
Current thread:
- Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Leo Bicknell (Jul 25)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? John C. A. Bambenek (Jul 25)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Roy (Jul 25)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? David Lesher (Jul 25)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Stephen Wilcox (Jul 26)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 26)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Warren Kumari (Jul 26)
- RE: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Howard C. Berkowitz (Jul 26)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Roy (Jul 25)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? John C. A. Bambenek (Jul 25)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Patrick W. Gilmore (Jul 25)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Warren Kumari (Jul 25)
- RE: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Alex Rubenstein (Jul 25)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Mattias Ahnberg (Jul 26)