UPS: unthinking pillock's stupidity
The engineer working on our uninterruptible power supply tells a tale of a customer who rang up, irate, because their UPS had failed to keep them going during a power cut. The engineer asked about their set up; they had a diesel generator which cut in as the back up.

"So is it pumped fuel, or gravity fed?"

"Pumped."

"And how is the pump powered?"

"Well, it's just plugged in to the.... oh."

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(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 25 Mar 2013, 14:59, 4 replies)

But . . . but . . .
did they install it themselves?

Sounds like epic stupidity, but is it the customer, or your engineer who is guilty?
(username failed moderation, Mon 25 Mar 2013, 15:03, closed)

I think the UPS was one where you provide your own optional generator
So out of the box it covers short interruptions, but you need to connect a genny for long outages.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 25 Mar 2013, 16:21, closed)

The usual fuck up.
Is to neglect to put your cooling on the backup power supply, so your systems slowly cook themselves during the outage.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 25 Mar 2013, 15:24, closed)

How is pump powered?
how is pump powered
how generator get started
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 10:44, closed)