I was haunted by the power supply gods (or I should say demons) this summer. They must have fled to Texas after I performed the last exorcism :-)
No seriously, we had many power related problem this past summer, more than the agreegate of the entire rest of our time in business. Its hard to say why for sure... Whether its because a lot of the gear was in place for the past 7 years, and it was time (EOL) or whether the weather was changing for the worse. The storms were bad.(maybe global warming). Then I started thinking, maybe it was just becoming time for the power company, after reading arcticles that they were not adequately maintaining their infrastructure. But regardless of the cause, as one's company grows, it become more and more important to stay on top of power protection and adding redundancy. BAsed on the severity of electrical attacks we've seen, the single basic SOHO APC solution doesn't cut it any more. I've had some cases where multiple power protection devices in-line all got compromised. For example, a highend battery inverter, a standard cabnet UPS downstream, and router power supply in the rack all get killed at once, and that was with an additional high KA surge arrester in the panel itself, and everything common grounded. What else could I have done? Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: Marco Coelho To: [email protected] ; WISPA General List Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 5:22 PM Subject: [WISPA] I must have angered the Power Supply Gods Is is just me or are others having serious power supply issues the last two months? I've lost 6 APC Smart UPS 1500 (5 bad batts, 1 Failed unit). We change batteries every two years as a preventative measure. 1 Cisco 12000 Power Supply (never seen one of these fail) 3 Server Power supplies These have all failed at different locations, power grids, etc. No pattern. I'm tired of this nonsense. I'm going to burn a virgin power supply in the yard tonight as a sacrifice! I may even include a Cuban Cigar and some Bourbon. -- Marco C. Coelho Argon Technologies Inc. POB 875 Greenville, TX 75403-0875 903-455-5036 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1153 / Virus Database: 424/3260 - Release Date: 11/16/10
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