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