Well, Irene managed to take out the power for about 1-1/2 hours this
morning. The big surprise was not that the power went out but that my
UPS didn't prevent the computer from going down with it. The laptop my
wife uses kept on chugging on battery power but had no internet
connection since I didn't have the router and cable modem plugged into
the UPS. So, to test to see if the UPS was working at all, I plugged in
the modem and router and it provided the laptop with an internet
connection until the mains came back on.
Now I've got to figure out why the UPS didn't keep the big iron from
failing. Could be the battery is old (probably getting on to 5 years or
more) and couldn't deliver the power required. After the battery gets
charged back up I'll give it a test by pulling the power plug on the
UPS. If it fails again I'll replace the UPS battery.
Is it possible for this to happen if the mains chatter enough while
going down that they manage to outfox the UPS such that it also chatters
enough to make a non-power window long enough to let the computer fail?
Chuck Norcutt
On 8/28/2011 7:53 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Actually, "eye of the storm" is exactly the place to be if you can but
> manage to stay there. I've been in a couple of eyes and it's very calm
> in there. But all hell breaks loose once again when the eye wall from
> the opposite side of the storm comes (quickly) upon you.
>
> We're having heavy rain at the moment and the wind is blowing harder
> than I expected. But I'm pretty far inland. Right now the center of
> the eye is a bit over 200 miles away. Later today it will be about 130
> miles away. So it might get worse before it gets better. But I'm
> neither likely to be blown away nor flooded out. Max winds should be on
> the low end of tropical storm force and the rivers and streams were
> below normal levels before the storm. Besides, I'm on the top of a high
> hill. If it floods here y'all better be building an ark. :-)
>
> But there are others on this list who are either on or very near the
> coast. I have coastal property too but I'm in New York at the moment
> and that property is on the west coast of Florida. Both places are safe
> (for the moment).
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 8/28/2011 5:26 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>> I hope that you chaps are OK Over There. I thought that Irene had
>> weakened, but it looks still pretty rough.
>>
>> I wish the reporters Over Here would stop talking about the "eye of
>> the storm" as if it were the worst bit, though.
>>
>> Chris
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