lorien back up: 50% brownout at Snug Harbor

[lwood]

Hi, we're having about a 50% brownout here at Snug Harbor just now, so we've shut our server down in order to keep it away from the flakey (and insufficient) power. Once I'm done with this post, we'll be shutting the network hardware down as well.

I'll edit when we're back online!

We came back online about three hours later, at 1 AM.

One casualty: the new television.

One serendipitous find: the power cord to the OLD television--hey! faeryl and marquisdanbear, you can power that tv now!

-- Lorrie

Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Down to 55 volts? I guess that wouldn't power very much (I doubt anything here would like it at 115V either, I suspect that none of the lights would even work (being the fluorescent so-called energy-saving ones); the computers ought to stay on for a while on UPS, but the monitor isn't on a UPS supply so it could be difficult doing anything, unless this one has a multi-voltage input).

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Well--"50%" is a ballpark figure. It was a lot less than 100%, but enough for the television to fill its capacitor and try to come on, but not enough to succeed, so it flapped and did something bad to itself: it won't accept HDMI input anymore.

-- Lorrie

[apel.livejournal.com]

TV sounds expensive. If it were an old one, it would probably be a matter of replacing one of those little glass tube fuses. No idea if newer ones even have fuses, never mind the glass tube variety that's so easy to change.

A good thing this didn't happen today when you were cooking.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's a very new HDTV one--so while the repair would be expensive, at least it's under warranty.

As for cooking, I put on the radio, and to placate the countgeiger-bear, we have found a workaround that lets the video come through in HD.

So it can all be sorted, which is a blessing--eventually!

-- Lorrie

[keristor.livejournal.com]

"As for cooking, I put on the radio"

Somewhere I have one of those tube radios, capable of frying an egg. I ought to dig it out, before there's nothing to listen to (because the UK government is trying to push 'digital' and get rid of the analogue radio systems).

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Heh--they've got the HD/digital radio here, too, but they're not trying to turn off analog AM and FM yet like they are with analog television.

-- Lorrie