Re: AS/400 time warp or black hole?

[neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Call IBM service and demand a replacement.  They'll probably pass your call
on to Best Power (the manufacturer).
Tell them the problem, and emphasize you want to make sure they ship a
replacement that has the engineering change to solve this.  I doubt they
would still be shipping out replacements without this E.C. these days.

Yes - the UPS will just cut all output power even if there is no
disturbance in incoming line power.
When ours died we had an old AS/400 B10 (with a dead internal battery), and
an old S/36 5362 sitting in the corner that didn't go down.  Only the model
170 that was "protected" by the UPS.

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"M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@ttec.com> on 2000/08/02 15:20:48

To:   neilp@dpslink.com
cc:

Subject:  Re: AS/400 time warp or black hole?


Neil,

At 8/2/00 01:44 PM -0400, you wrote:
I would hazard a guess that you have an IBM 9910-080 or 140 UPS.
That's the problem.  They have a tendency to just turn themselves off
whenever they feel like it.
 Good call!!  It's a 9910-140.  What's even more disturbing is that the
wall power did not go out!!  This means that when the UPS cuts out it
severs the existing current, with no fail-safe.


This is a known, but not too well publicized, fault with those UPS models.
 Is there an IBM document that confirms this?  If yes, maybe they can
demand a different model as a replacement.


 -mark




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