I think you are wrong, what works for you in the City does NOT work for me across the river in NJ. When I lived in the city the numbers you gave were right, however for the last 3 years that I have seen about six blackouts here in NJ where I live (BTW, we were NOT part of the 2003 balckout in my town) 2 of them had to do with squirrels and the like playing with the lines, the rest had to do with rain storms that usualy meant a burned out connector to the transformer or a burned out transformer (the burned transformer was not during a storm).
On 4/14/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: > > > On Friday 14 April 2006 17:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > This is why asterisk guys should stick to doing asterisk, and leave > > > facility management to people who know that. > > > > Seeing as I am a field applications engineer for an industrial power > > electronics company with over ten years' of experience in this field, I > > find your comment not only amusing, but also downright incorrect. > In words of Randy Bush, I encourage my competitors to use you for the > electrical engineering. *plonk* > > > Asterisk is my hobby, but one I am very good at. 20 minutes may have > > been a bit of a stretch, but I typically see 50% usage on the UPS before > > the genset is started. You do *not* want your 600kW genset cycling for > > 2-3 minutes whenever a squirrel or raccoon falls across the lines or > > tries to nest in the transformer and trips the breaker, especially since > > the breakers will automatically try to clear the fault 3 or so times > > before staying tripped off and notifying a human. > I don't know about squirrels in your neck of woods, but over here in New > York, I've had my genset start exactly once in 5 years that wasn't a > "major power outage". (Major power outage = 9/11 and 2003 blackout). > > Starting genset is a minor price to pay for assurance that your stuff is > operating properly *at the moment of the outage* and UPS batteries won't > be unnecessarily drained. > > Besides, no ATS will run genset for 2-3 minutes, they all have "30 minute > minimum" and then "spindown" time. > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
