UPS War Stories (was: Re: [Cialug] k12ltsp)

[Nathan C. Smith]

He probably breathed more of that wire than he ever saw again.

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I used to work for Pacific Bell.  Phone companies have HUGE battery banks to

hold everything up until the generators can come on line.  A contract 
electrician was working on something, and had the large buss wires powering 
the whole floor full of servers exposed.  He stripped the insulation off of
a 
very thick piece of cable to make a jumper and accidentally dropped it
across 
the UPS buss.  There was a loud bang, a puff of vapor and everything in the 
room went down.  He was actually surprised that he could never find the
cable 
he dropped.  It is kind of funny now.  It was chaos for a while until we 
could get everything back up.

Steve