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LiberalArkie

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4. I used to work at a large data center.

Reply to dballance (Original post)

Mon Oct 14, 2013, 03:34 PM

Oct 2013

A maintenance man doing routine maintenance on the building UPS system was changing the filters in the ups.

This work was being done in the daytime as it was not service impacting. The filters were the metal kind not cardboard like at home. The maintenance man did not notice that the clip holding the top of the filter was loose. When he shut the door holding the filter, the filter fell backward and shorted out the ups. The building went down.

The building had to run on 5 1.5 mw generators for over 2 months until the ups manufacturer could certify that the ups would work properly. Needles to say the UPS maintenance man, the data center in charge person were canned.

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I used to work at a large data center. LiberalArkie Oct 2013 #4