Amen. Although my voltage does not seem to fluctuate quite so much, at least once a week my UPS kicks in. The drop is so quick and resumes so quickly that I only see the little APC Windoze agent saying "You are back on utility power". (In fact, it just did this 2 minutes ago, while composing an off-line reply to Phil P.)
One key is to keep up to date on preventative maintenance, so when that backhoe with the special buried-utility-seeking option finds its goal, you can at least shut down gracefully. Later, Ray > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craddock, Chris > Sent: Tuesday May 16 2006 14:58 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: An unexpected lights out operation > > > Wow. One can only dream about such a stable commercial supply. Since > the > > event I wrote about, we already have had one hit big enough > to trigger > > the generator. It is the rare month the generator does not earn its > > keep. The UPS log of minor hits is quite lengthy. > > Here in southeast Texas the mains power supply is (ahem) > "Flaky" to be charitable. Call me a nerd, but I have multiple > UPS' here in my home and they bleep constantly because of > line voltage fluctuations. Then there are the lovely > thunderstorms that take out the power with some monotonous > regularity. In this area, you'd have to be nuts to run > without UPS for any sized business that had > availability/business continuity requirements more demanding > than my home network. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
