No, the maintenance guy shuts off both of our buildings from 3PM to
6PM so we are not drawing any power. This is due to an agreement
with our power company, they fax us and call us to tell us what
days they will be curtailing power, which is typically on days when
it is over 90 degrees outside.
Russ Gowin
System Administrator
Technology Specialist
DeLand-Weldon CUSD #57
304 E. Illinois Route 10
DeLand, IL 61839
217-736-2311
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Yeah 3 hour break doesn't seem like much. My guess he meant 6am.
I suggest you just shut off your servers for a couple days. Then
he may understand how important they are to stay cool.
Scott
McKay, Curtis wrote:
How much power are they shutting off at 3pm? And it comes back on
a 6pm? I'm confused.
Curtis McKay
Network Administrator
Belleville Township High School District 201
cmc...@bths201.org
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Yes, he could walk to my office and do it, but even if he did he wouldn't
understand. I've explained to him before that we have a lot of time and
money invested in the servers and the last thing we want is for them to go
down because of heat.
Russ Gowin
System Administrator
Technology Specialist
DeLand-Weldon CUSD #57
304 E. Illinois Route 10
DeLand, IL 61839
217-736-2311
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First, let him walk down there and turn it on. Maybe then he'll realize what
a PITA it is.
Second, show him how much it would cost to replace burned-out servers and
let him compare that to the cost of bringing in central air.
Mike
On Aug 11, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Russ Gowin wrote:
I come in to work this morning and I tell the supt. that the new portable
air conditioner in my office works great except that when they curtail our
power (shut it off) at 3pm and then turn it back on at 6pm that the A/C
unit
doesn't come on automatically so whoever turns the power back on will
probably have to turn the unit back on. He says to me "You turn it off
over
the weekend don't you?" I just wanted to smack my head against the wall
but
I replied and said "No, because all of the servers are in there and they
have to stay cool". It has been this way for at least the past 5 or 6
years.
The problem this week (and part of next week) is that the maintenance guy
who normally turns the power off/on is on vacation until Wednesday so that
means the supt. will be flipping the switches and I just know that he
won't
want to walk to my office and unlock it just to turn my A/C back on.
Luckily I still have the window unit in here so I'll just turn off the
portable unit and turn on the window unit before I leave, at least until
the
maintenance guy comes back.
I just wish they'd pipe central air over to my office from one of the
rooms
across the hall. The A/C unit that goes to 2 of those rooms is actually
made to cool an entire floor of an office building and it wouldn't take
much
to run some ductwork to my office.
Russ Gowin
System Administrator
Technology Specialist
DeLand-Weldon CUSD #57
304 E. Illinois Route 10
DeLand, IL 61839
217-736-2311
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