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...s been out 5 minutes it is unlikely to be back soon. I have been keeping track, and basically - There are a lot of 3-5s outages. I believe these are faults that clear themselves (squirrel stops conducting :-( or branch falls the rest of the way) or have cleared by the time the recloser recloses. Sometimes it is 5s out, 2s on, 5s out, 2s on, 5s out, back on. Sometimes that and then just out. Often just out cleanly, and sometimes pretty messy. - There was one outage recently of just about 3 minutes. I don't understand what happened, but it was apparently substation-...

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