Dave Trapnell wrote:

f/fgeorge <ffgeorge@yourplace.com> wrote:

Berkeley had another power outage and is trying to figure out why.

[...]

The reason the CPU's were not affected was because they were
protected by Liebert motor-generators with big inertial
flywheels

Yup. Those mechanical beasts are much more effective than the present day weedy battery-transistors-antisurge plastic UPS boxes.

Shame the flywheels are so big and heavy and noisy and require a fast-start generator for continued backup...


They'll likely find something daft like a leaky kettle is tripping an earth-leakage breaker or some such.

Anyone for a cup of tea?
... Click. All goes suddenly quiet and dark... (:-((


Regards,
Martin