Re: How long does a PWRDWNSYS restart(*no) actually take?

We had a location in Florida that had placed the UPS in the back of the building, and placed the batteries on metal shelving. Unfortunately, the shelving had metal X bracing to keep it stable, and it had some screws pointing in the direction of the batteries. When loading the shelves, one of the batteries met the screw.

The electrolyte oozed out, down to the level of the screw.

Well, no one noticed. And even the daily flicker of power durng the daily thunderstorm didn't cause a problem-- the computer power never blinked. Until the day when the power went out, and didn't come back. -=Then=- we noticed! The UPS couldn't keep the system up.

To add insult to injury, once utility power was back our S/38 tried to restart on the UPS connection (which was going fine), when the maintenance guys took the UPS off-line. And the power glitch from -that- started the S/38 IPLing -again.-

Well, once we got everyone to agree NOT to re-route the power, the S/38 sat and thought for a LONNNNNG time, as it recovered (successfully) from the power crash, and the interruption to the power during the aftermath.

--Paul E Musselman