You OK Chuck? Wet basement, downed power lines, no Sunday paper
delivery......?
Here in coastal Nova Scotia in late evening it's just grey skies, drizzle
and strongish breezes.
jh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Irene
>I finally did my deliberate pull the plug (actually, flick the switch)
> test. When the power went off the morning the only thing plugged into
> the UPS was the Dell desktop machine. I normally don't plug the monitor
> into the UPS since it a CRT and draws lots of power. This time I added
> the cable modem and router to see if anything worked at all. When I
> flipped the switch the big CPU box dropped immediately. But the modem
> and router kept on ticking. So the UPS electronics seem to work and I
> assume the battery is too old to deliver the needed current for the big
> box. I'll replace the battery after double checking that the specs for
> the smallish UPS say it should be able to support the power requirements
> of the big box.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 8/28/2011 11:52 AM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>> Chuck,
>>
>> I have only one small UPS, used to power my wife's old VCR and her
>> set-top
>> box with DVR. It seems to respond almost instantaneously to a drop in
>> power. Hard to say what a chattering-type interruption would do. When
>> it
>> gets fully charged, you could simulate that by loosening the wall plug
>> and
>> moving it around to give an intermittent connection, though not enough to
>> burn the prongs of the plug.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Chuck Norcutt"<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion"<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 10:15 AM
>> Subject: Re: [OM] Irene
>>
>>
>>> 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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