Peter Blodow wrote: > > I can't really remember when we had our last black out hereabouts - I > think it was in April 1976 or 77. A heavy snow shower loaded ice on a 50 > kV three phase line which was fastened onesided on the masts, so it > broke and turned all the masts within about 100 km distance to screws. > Since then there was no major power failure except for planned > maintenance once every 10 years or so. > > When I travelled through the US in 2001 with my family, nobody there was > surprised that the hotels had hours of blackouts when a thunderstorm was > visible on the horizon - battery systems failed after a few hours. If > something like this would happen here the papers would print 3 inch > letters on the front pages about it. > I can't speak for anyone else, or any other area. But, we have had a few momentary interruptions a year since we moved here. I remember one regional outage that lasted for several hours, and we had a massive ice storm 2 or 3 years ago that caused about a 14-hour outage, Recently, we had a storm that probably caused a pinhole in the insulation of our underground feed, and we lost one phase to just OUR house for about 24 hours, until the utility could get to it. That is over about 22 years at this location.
I really think that our power is quite reliable. I know our university has more reliable power, my desktop computer there has occasionally run over a year without reboot (no UPS). Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
