LRJ4x4
Web Wheeler
Reged: 12/17/01
Posts: 11717
Loc: Monterey, CA
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About 8:45 am this morning I hear a loud "BOOM" and the lights turn out. Sounded like your classic transformer popping. My phone is going crazy with text messages "power failure, power failure" and the deafening sound of 30 backup power supplies beeping. It was a good test of my emergency shutdown process. Phone is still going crazy with "shutdown procedure started" messages. I run to the server room to make sure the two database servers have a clean shutdown. They are the golden eggs of the company. I have a Barracuda backup appliance but the idea of a half terabyte restore is not pretty.
About that time one of my guys runs in and says it's was a crow. Nothing smells worse than burnt electrical crow 
Had to throw him in the dumpster so the other on onlooker crows would clear out. I didn't want to have a repeat.
Only took PG&E 15 minutes to respond to reset the transformer. Whoever said IT is not exciting !
Link to toasty crow photo
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Oyaji_Jon
Roll Me Over
Reged: 11/01/01
Posts: 3269
Loc: Pebble Beach, CA
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COOL! Glad you got everything shut down safely...
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ScottFW
Body Damage is Cool
Reged: 09/22/03
Posts: 2019
Loc: NoVA
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Sounds like fun. It looks like some of the bird's parts are missing, perhaps vaporized?
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rxinhed
The Mitsubishi Parts Guy
Reged: 02/21/05
Posts: 5936
Loc: Gerber, CA
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Zzzt!  
Looks like the remains of the bat that flew into the 440VAC bug zapper at the trap & skeet range I worked at. Poor bat, and poor crow!
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IceBlueT
Mudrunner
Reged: 10/10/06
Posts: 469
Loc: Longmont, CO
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You wanna send one of those crow's over this way? I could really use a day off...
last time we lost power, we sat around the shop for about three hours then gave up and went home. course, we cant let any of the lifts down or use any air tools with out our electrically powered air compressor...
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fasteddy
Web Wheeler
Reged: 01/30/01
Posts: 12751
Loc: Flat Creek, GA
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"Quoth the raven, "Nevermore""...
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kewlynx
Toyota & Classifieds Moderator
Reged: 10/06/02
Posts: 15758
Loc: Fairbanks, Alaska
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We have a battery bank; check out the reasons why:
http://www.arsc.edu/resources/resources.html
These guys have their own EPO switch that we toss before we throw our static switch. We run about 500+ GPM of chilled water at any given time to support the above stuff, plus more.
Had a SQUIRREL club a transformer at a substation about 5 weeks ago. Not one of those eastern gray squirrels either.
Took 'em a little time down at the U's power plant to get the diesel generator online
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MarkG
Body Damage is Cool
Reged: 02/01/01
Posts: 2228
Loc: Scaly Mountain, NC, USA
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Most data centers I've worked in have backup batteries and generators. This works well when the power is off. I was working at a big bank in a major metropolitan area that had a water main break nearby. No water meant no chillers. No chillers meant no cooling. No cooling meant all the systems got shutdown. In a big bank this meant all the online systems came down like ATMs, wire transfers, check processing and the brick and mortar branches.
After a few hours the big bank officers convinced the city to get a fire truck to lay fire hose from the nearest working hydrant to the chillers. This let us everything back online until the water main was repaired. 
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LRJ4x4
Web Wheeler
Reged: 12/17/01
Posts: 11717
Loc: Monterey, CA
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My server room is modest, about 10x14 feet with about 8 physical servers. I've been asking for a backup generator for years. The boss thinks that since were on "the airport grid"
we never lose power.
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98 Montero with cold weather package
96 Toyota Land Cruiser, fully locked Mall Machine :-)
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RichinROA
Trail Leader
Reged: 10/03/05
Posts: 5058
Loc: Village of Big Lick
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you know...with a little butter n some sage...I'm just saying.
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