I do. Hurricane Wilma, blew the roof off our building, water pouring in
pooling under the floor and onto the PDUs and UPS (800amps of 480v). We
wanted to save the data on the servers, had to hit the EPO to enter the
room (anyone have an idea of how far that much power would arc?). It
was STILL quite scary since the batteries were still charged, I actually
flipped the breaker on the UPS. Not fun to be around that much power
when there is a lot of water. Only time I've ever seen an EPO hit in
person.
Jerry Pasker wrote:
I've always wondered who died or was injured and caused the EPO to
come in to existence. There have been lots of "EPO caused downtime"
stories, but does anyone on the NANOG list even have one single "Thank
God for the EPO" story? I'll feel better about the general state of
the world if I know that the EPO actually has a real valid use that
has been ACTUALLY PROVEN IN PRACTICE rather than just in someone's mind.
-Jerry <----Is so anti EPO, he has no remote EPO buttons, and even
has the irrational fear about the jumper on the "EPO terminal strip"
inside his UPSes coming undone.