Re: Anyone else lost power at Fisher Plaza this afternoon?

[Jim Popovitch <jimpop () yahoo com>]

Michael K. Smith wrote:
> It was a breaker in the main bypass from city power to the generators.  The
> breaker failed to close so the generators happily fed power to nowhere.
> Then, everyone's UPS failed and down we/they went.  The outage lasted
> approximately 26 minutes.  

Nobody checked to make sure that at least one of the UPSs showed a 
status of "ONLINE" instead of "ONBATTERY"?   Were there no UPSs 
configured to alert during continued and extended PF?  Surely people 
didn't just trust the sound/vibration of the running generator.

-Jim P.