Mind your reply-to's, Joel :) Forwarded as intended for the list. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 16:59:45 +1300 From: Joel Wiramu Pauling To: Mark Foster Subject: Re: [nznog] Widespread Auckland Power Outage 2009-02-03 Out of curiosity how many people on this list have Sustainable UPS collection/top up schemes in place in parts of their networks. I.e Solar/Wind feeders to battery units? I know diesel generators are the norm, but I have also seen solar array powered gear work pretty well (NZ Wireless I believe have Solar fed battery arrays on their Somes Island AP). -JoelW 2009/2/3 Mark Foster :

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Patrick Jordan-Smith wrote:

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On 3/02/2009, at 3:43 PM, Nicholas Lee wrote:

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You would think that Transpower would learn not do work to critical systems in the middle of a hot day when it would be a peak.

Personally I'd prefer to have the time when there is risk of power cuts during the day - at least there is a big light in the sky (most days.) Much easier than trying to find the candles when the power cuts out at 10pm and it all goes dark. Much easier to deal with traffic issues.

Yes, and people are at work to deal with the ramifications, instead of being on callback/overtime and delayed to respond...

After all, UPS is just brownout protection, right?

:-)

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