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Re: Anyone else lost power at Fisher Plaza this afternoon?

  • From: Michael K. Smith
  • Date: Mon Aug 07 11:40:14 2006

Hello Frank:


On 8/5/06 1:20 PM, "Frank Bulk" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> AFAIK, you don't need to have to have someone onsite to trip a breaker....if
> it doesn't do it automatically, there are a multitude of SCADA systems
> available to manuaully flip them on.  Unless, of course, the
> electromechanical components that physically flip the breaker over have
> failed.
> 
> Frank
> 
I would tend to agree; I think the issue, however, was the breaker had
failed, so none of the systems in place were able to address it correctly.
The manual failover is a list-ditch attempt should all others fail.

Mike