[outages] 11 North Pearl, Albany, NY - Power issue

[Frank Bulk]

Thanks for sharing that in-person perspective.

Failure of generators is a local concern of mine, too.  98% of the time our
generator runs for ~15 minutes each month in its regular test.  Then once
every few years it runs an hour or two when commercial power is out.  But
we've never run it for a day or two.  I'm sure we would learn a lot.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Muldoon [mailto:doon.bulk at inoc.net] 
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 8:06 PM
To: Frank Bulk <frnkblk at iname.com>
Cc: Michael T. Voity <mvoity at uvm.edu>; Jason Lixfeld <jason at lixfeld.ca>;
outages at outages.org
Subject: Re: [outages] 11 North Pearl, Albany, NY - Power issue

> On Aug 21, 2015, at 6:27 PM, Frank Bulk via Outages <outages at outages.org>
wrote:
> 
> No generator there?

The National Grid outage was described at catastrophic.  The building has 2
Primary feeds, and both of them where knocked out  sometime after 3AM.
There is a tertiary feed as well, but their appears to be a fault in it, as
they cannot bring it up.  This power outage is affecting multiple buildings
in downtown Albany.  

   The building does provide generators, and they ran for approximately 5
hours, before all of them too suffered some sort of failure (we are waiting
on RFO/Post mortem),  but I was hearing they where overheating and issues
with the radiators, and was watching people carry coolant up the stairs most
of the afternoon.    They appear to have at least one generator running and
fairly stable, but it is coming up on the 5 hour or runtime again.  Also
there are a lot of  people in that building that are not on the building
generators. 

Right now it is a small generator city there with the sidewalks in both the
front and back sides of the building covered in various sized rollups, as
National Grid is still saying 8:00AM EDT Tomorrow  before commercial power
is restored.


-Patrick 

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