A ceiling fan tripped your main? Wow. I could see it breaking the circuit it was on, but the 200A (guessing) Main? That's a tad dangerous...even for TN wiring. ;)
- Will On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Webster <[email protected]> wrote: > Sitting in my home office working on XenApp servers on remote data > centers and all of the sudden I lost all power to the house. Our local > utility is implementing smart meters in our area so I thought maybe > something went wrong and the neighborhood lost power. Nope, just us. Our > next door neighborhood is an EE so we get him to come over a take a look. > After a lot of looking it turns out the ceiling fan in our guest bedroom > had fallen out of the ceiling, broke its electrical wires which tripped the > master breaker and shut off power. > > I have 7 UPSes in my office and this was a real test and three of them > failed. THe two backing up my main computer and its four monitors didn't > last 10 minutes when they should have easily have lasted 180 minutes or > more (APC BackUPS 1500). All three UPSes have been replaced and our > neighbor fixed our wiring and I can get back to billable work. > > Thought y'all might enjoy a little laugh on my part. :) > > Thanks > > > Carl Webster > > Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional > > http://www.CarlWebster.com <http://www.carlwebster.com/> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
