Reply to post: Re: Smells funny.

BA's 'global IT system failure' was due to 'power surge'

Dazed and Confused

Re: Smells funny.

Plus out the back, we have 8 massive V12 Diesel Generators that would power a small town.

I remember a story a customer told me once about their backup generators. They were on the roof of the building which housed their DC and the diesel tanks were buried under the car park. Every couple of months the generators were tested, they'd be fired up for a few minutes to make sure everything was in working order.

Then came the day of the actual power cut.

Everything went fine to start with, the batteries kicked in, then the generators all started, then after a couple of minutes each of the generators coughed and died one by one.

It turned out the pumps the get the fuel up to the roof were on the wrong side of the cross over switches.

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