What was that about?

[ebikeerwidnes]

Some of you guys were much nearer to the nuts and bolts of resilience than me. I was just doing things like dress rehearsals for disasters.

My favourite experience of that was when we got the sparks to simulate a power failure. The UPS kicked in (good) the diesel generators fired up (good) smoky exhaust from the diesels went in through a window and set off the fire alarms (er ... sub-optimal)

We had something similar

test for power failure
mains power switched off
generators start automatically and batteries cut in to maintain power until they are upt o speed

generators start - cough, splutter and fail

panic as they try to get the mains back on before the batteries run out


then major investigation as to why the generators failed

turns out the diesel supplier was changed as part of an efficiency drive and supplied substandard diesel

 

[matticus]

Both of those fall into the category of Successful Test!