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Don't Forget the 6 'P's

As we prepare for EDF switching off our local grid supply this weekend, I find myself in a state of calm, the lull before the storm as it were.

Having moved our computer room from one supply to a temporary via a half mile long three inch diameter cable, whilst the original was moved onto generators, and then switched it back without losing any services (me anyway - one of the systems guys actually ran the shutdown script on the wrong box and promptly shut off a bit more than a few terminal servers for an hour) I can safely say that putting a changeover panels upstream of our UPS aswell as the building supply at the last outage was probably a good idea. Even if the UPS only has a life of about 4 minutes at full load, it saves the day to shut down and the day to bring up (not to mention the day to go round replacing crap fuses and smoking power supplies). Saying that I do get nervous sitting in the dark after switching a mega watt onto a different supply as I wait for the dirty lights to come back on and the UPS' to stop beeping and sending warnings to my phone.

Now as I wait for any 'problems', all that is left to do is sit in the sun and sip iced tea. Afterall, I wasn't so prepared that I remembered to connect my office to a different supply in preperation for the glorious bank holiday weekend, but as chance would have it a spare wireless antenna managed to find itself on a nearby roof in close proximity to a sun lounger and ice bucket.

27 May 2005 12:59 | (0) comments | Work


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