One of my favorite customer sites had "voting" temp controls placed throughout the building. All were supposed to be taken into account and used to control whether a/c or heat came on, how long, what temp, etc. Since it never seemed to work correctly (generally raising temps over 90 in spring, summer and fall (usually worse in the afternoons), then letting them drop to temps that caused all the users to plug into portable fire hazards (winter or summer), with random days when the temps were semi-ok), a separate a/c system was installed for their server room (which at the time was racks of pc's using PC-MOS, later upgraded (numerous times) to various multi-users systems until today the room is nearly empty, with four rack-mount servers and a few peripherals).
They recently (last year or so) did a "survey" of the temp controls, rigidly checking temp and settings in every room, every hour, for weeks. During this time, only one person could change settings and they did one room at a time, then checked for several days, etc. After a few months, the general conclusion was that none of the temp controls were hooked into anything at all. Heat and a/c worked, but with no discernible pattern (rumours were that it was controlled by the offsite landlord or aliens). I believe they finally had the entire thermostat system replaced. As to the portable fire-starters -- the IS dept was the worst about having them hooked up (after all, their office was next to the server room and leaked extra cold in there everytime someone checked on a server or pulled a print job. > -----Original Message----- > Have I ever been misled? I thought everyone on the list was an Alien > Overlord! No sane human would deal with "users". :) > > Mike --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
