Re: UPS and power shenanigans...
@Roland6: It's usually only a problem when it's intentionally done by an electrician who got the bill for the outage they caused to the businesses in that office complex, *and* our bill for the replacement of hardware, technician labor, call out, etc. :)
If I recall correctly, said electrician shorted the 220V line in to the something- now that I'm thinking, it might have been the neutral line and not the ground line. (US uses hot, neutral, and earth ground for most things) In any case, two of the workstations did not like whatever they did and the capacitors in their power supplies blew up rather messily. the UPS did exactly what it was supposed to do- isolated the load entirely, then shut down.
It was fun walking into the shop in the mornings and smelling freshly cooked power supplies.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
