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RE: San Francisco Power Outage

  • From: Alex Rubenstein
  • Date: Wed Jul 25 01:23:11 2007 
> > Sad that the little Telcove DC here in Lancaster, PA, that Level3
> > bought a few months ago, has weekly full-on generator tests where
> > 100% of the load is transferred to the generator, while apparently
> > large DCs that are charging premium rates, do not.
> 
> Perhaps they do.  Wouldn't have mattered in this case if the
> big-red-button rumor is real.  ;-)

Also, doing a "full-on generator test where 100% of the load is transferred"
is not always the best option.

Unneeded usage of VRLA's only shortens their lives.