<div dir="auto">The outage is also very dependant on what tripped power in the first place. We've been on the receiving end of multiple outages owing to a wonky & poorly documented Emergency Power Off circuit in a datacenter. If the fire suppression system engages, power to some / most / all systems (depending on configuration) gets cut to protect firefighters. In our case, there was *supposed* to be a bypass for the EPO, e.g. "turn this key to prevent the EPO from engaging when you do your annual fire alarm testing & maintenance."<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Well, that testing procedure hadn't been fully followed for a number of years. Someone finally got a wild hair and decided to do it by the book. Turn the key...engage the fire alarm test...(whump) dark datacenter...turns out that system didn't *quite* follow the schematics the old vendor provided. But at least the EPO functioned exactly as it was supposed to. Good times...good times...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">New Jersey also lost a pair of firefighters this week while responding to a ship board fire. They're going to be a might touchy about firefighter safety issues for a while.</div><div dir="auto">~Phil</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 8:24 PM Matthew Petach via Outages-discussion <<a href="mailto:outages-discussion@outages.org">outages-discussion@outages.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Many, many years ago when I was in a similar position, the fire marshal told me in no uncertain terms that if I fired up our genset before he gave the all-clear, he had the authority revoke our occupancy permit for the building. As fire marshals are often sworn members of law enforcement, authorized to carry a weapon and enforce the law, I felt it would be prudent to follow their directives and leave the building dark until they gave the all-clear.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't think the folks there want to jeopardize their business by jumping the gun and disobeying the fire marshal. ^_^;</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 5:09 PM Charles Sprickman via Outages-discussion <<a href="mailto:outages-discussion@outages.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">outages-discussion@outages.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">This is New Jersey, sounds like some palms have not been properly greased. :)<br>
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"Nice datacenter you got here, shame if it didn't have some electricity..."<br>
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Curious what would happen if they just opted to power from the gensets.<br>
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Charles<br>
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> On Jul 11, 2023, at 7:57 PM, Christopher J. Pilkington via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, Jul 11, 2023, at 08:52, Alex via Outages wrote:<br>
>> Looks like EWR1 will be down at least until the afternoon.<br>
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> Latest update, 9am meet with fire marshal. Best case, customer loads energized 4-5 hours after. <br>
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> -cjp<br>
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