On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Reminds me of some (OLD!) Square D Topaz UPSes we had YEARS ago
> and I decided to take it upon myself to replace the batteries. I was
> successful, however not without slicing the crap out of my hand on the
> metal chassis.

  Friend of mine used to work for a now-defunct datacenter company.
One day, they had a fire in one of the cabinets for their giant UPS
system.  Per the fire department, they had to hit the big red switch.
Unfortunately, their transfer switch was part of the UPS system, so
when they EPO'ed the UPS it took the load down with it.

  So they get a separate, manually-operated transfer switch installed.
 That way, even if the UPS melts down to slag, they can cut over to
line or generator in the meantime.

  Within a week of installation, there was an electrical fire in the
new transfer switch.

  Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue...

-- Ben

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