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Re: generators, etc....

  • From: Peter Lothberg
  • Date: Thu Oct 17 17:45:57 1996

> > Even when you have generators, there are still a myriad of things which
> > can and do go wrong no matter how hard you try, even with trebly
> > redundant backups, etc. etc.
> > 
> > A fuel supplier accidently puts half a load of jet fuel instead of #2
> > diesel in your storage tank, which you won't find until it reloads the
> > run tank from the day tank. 
> 
> Run the generator under load periodically. Have your gen maintenance
> contractor do fuel tests quarterly. Water is just as bad in the Diesel
> tank.

This can be solved, it's a matter of logistics and procedures, when
did you last hear that an airline filled with diesel instead of Jet-A1?


-Peter


Before anyone statrs to build a very expensive pop, revisit the idea
of several locations and geograpghical diversity, as it is close to
defend a single locataion, a competing ISP could go around and
cut all your wires....

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