All generators should be fully exercised for 24 hour periods once a year. I learned this the hard way during the blackout in 2003 when one of our roof top generators overheated and caught fire. It hadn't run for more then a couple of hours each year during annual power downs prior to this. On Aug 21, 2015 9:12 PM, "Mike Lieman via Outages" <outages@outages.org> wrote:
FWIW, There's a history of cable vault fires, exploding manhole covers, etc in that neighborhood. Infrastructure is Thomas Edison Old... On Aug 21, 2015 9:07 PM, "Patrick Muldoon via Outages" < outages@outages.org> wrote:
On Aug 21, 2015, at 6:27 PM, Frank Bulk via Outages < outages@outages.org> wrote:
No generator there?
The National Grid outage was described at catastrophic. The building has 2 Primary feeds, and both of them where knocked out sometime after 3AM. There is a tertiary feed as well, but their appears to be a fault in it, as they cannot bring it up. This power outage is affecting multiple buildings in downtown Albany.
The building does provide generators, and they ran for approximately 5 hours, before all of them too suffered some sort of failure (we are waiting on RFO/Post mortem), but I was hearing they where overheating and issues with the radiators, and was watching people carry coolant up the stairs most of the afternoon. They appear to have at least one generator running and fairly stable, but it is coming up on the 5 hour or runtime again. Also there are a lot of people in that building that are not on the building generators.
Right now it is a small generator city there with the sidewalks in both the front and back sides of the building covered in various sized rollups, as National Grid is still saying 8:00AM EDT Tomorrow before commercial power is restored.
-Patrick
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