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...e, which I suspect was also planned (if not announced) as part of restoring others after damage. - After that, I think the fastest was 28m, and 40-70m typical, for things that were "minor". There have been changes to distribution protection and these are rarer; I think reclosers are effective at ensuring that close-to-fault protection devices open, enabling the rest to stay on. - Plus some longer ones (multiple hours to small numbers of days), resulting from more serious damage, from trees on wires to broken poles. So aside from the single 3m outage, I...

I have an idea for my shutdown process at home. My goal: maximize the network run-time. At present, the UPS has a run-time of about 57 minutes. This is my idea: * shutdown the servers after 15 minutes of downtime (for me, that's when battery.runtime hits 40) * leave the network gear (switches, firewall, wifi) running so I can continue with Internet access Optionally: * when we get down to

Greetings all; I expect that I may not have the shutdown properly configured, but my site was subjected to some bad weather related intermittent power losses a week+ back, and I have an automatic standby plant, a 20kw, that usuall fires up and has the lights back on in 7 or 8 seconds. So while the power folks were reclosing substation breakers to see where the next tree limb was shorting

Greetings all; I expect that I may not have the shutdown properly configured, but my site was subjected to some bad weather related intermittent power losses a week+ back, and I have an automatic standby plant, a 20kw, that usuall fires up and has the lights back on in 7 or 8 seconds. So while the power folks were reclosing substation breakers to see where the next tree limb was shorting