Catastophic failure on ITV

"Zero Tolerance" wrote in message
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On Sat, 31 May 2008 14:19:49 +0100, Mark Carver
wrote:

The move to Chiswick must be imminent ? Perhaps last night's mess
was the
migration of services going horribly wrong ?

Straightforward power failure - no more, no less.

(Of the same type that the BBC have had three or four times this
decade.) :-)


You mean their stand-by generator caught fire as well as the grid
failing?...

:Jerry: wrote:
"Zero Tolerance" wrote in message

Straightforward power failure - no more, no less.

(Of the same type that the BBC have had three or four times this
decade.) :-)


You mean their stand-by generator caught fire as well as the grid
failing?...

It seems from the DS posting made today, that the UPS let out a nice fat spike.

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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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sniP

It seems from the DS posting made today, that the UPS let out a nice
fat spike.


There is some what of an irony in that, of all the devices to *cause*
an outage?! :~(

Somehow, I can't show any surprise ...

I used to be IT Support Person in residence for a large business
office. One day, an engineer arrives at reception and I am summoned.
He flashes his credentials, and says he has come to test the UPS.

I take him up to the Equipment Room (you know, where the air is nice
and cool), and he busies himself over the UPS while I do one or two
chores like change the backup tapes. Eventually he says: "Yes! That
all seems to be in order. It just remains to test it!"

"Ok!", says I, expecting him to attach some sort of electrical load.
After a pause pregnant with significance, he adds: "Er, you have to do
that!"

"Right ho!", I say, unusually slow at sensing danger, "What's to be
done?"

"You throw this switch here!", he says, pointing to the electricity
supply to all the cabinets.

Aghast now, I make frantic phone calls trying to find someone a little
more senior! "Surely this can't be right?", I query, but it was.

So I throws the switch, and there's a collective groan from all the
cabinets as all the disks spin down, and instant pandemonium out in
the office.

The first thing I notice when I examine the UPS for myself is that the
casing of the battery is split! I write a stern email to my superiors
about the stupidity of such a test taking place during office hours,
and suggesting that in failing to spot the split battery, the engineer
was incompetent.

I am not popular for a while, but none of us are ever asked to repeat
such a test again!

On Sat, 31 May 2008 19:45:42 +0100, Mark Carver
wrote:

It seems from the DS posting made today, that the UPS let out a nice fat spike.

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:Jerry: wrote:

It seems from the DS posting made today, that the UPS let out a nice
fat spike.

There is some what of an irony in that, of all the devices to *cause*
an outage?! :~(

In 30 years of using computers, I have experienced innumerable
computer outages because of UPSes being installed, removed, serviced,
or exploding, and have never once had my computer stay up, or even
shut down in an orderly manner, when the mains was cut.

-- Richard
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On May 31, 8:48 am, Mark Carver wrote:


Blow by blow account of it all he-

http://www.tvforum.co.uk/forum/viewt...stdays=0&posto...

I don't think anything particularly important or compelling was lost.

Another one of those ancient 1970's fault caption generators kicked in
at the Crystal Palace analogue tx, judging from this screenshot:

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/953...naloguebm4.jpg

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On May 31, 8:48 am, Mark Carver wrote:

Blow by blow account of it all he-

http://www.tvforum.co.uk/forum/viewt...stdays=0&posto...

I don't think anything particularly important or compelling was lost.

Another one of those ancient 1970's fault caption generators kicked in
at the Crystal Palace analogue tx, judging from this screenshot:

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/953...naloguebm4.jpg

For a while there was a newer looking fault caption on ITV2+1 on Freeview.
It said "There is a Fault. Normal service will be resumed as soon as
possible." in yellow letters on a light blue background (electronically
generated), accompanied by a woman's voice reading out the same words. The
voice sounded a bit over compressed or narrow bandwidth. It was different
from ITV2+1 on satellite and unlike any of the other the fault captions.

ITV2+1 on Freeview is an oddity, being on a National Grid Wireless multiplex
instead of an ITV one, so could this have been a Red Bee fault caption from
BBC White City perhaps?

ITV2+1 on Freeview is an oddity, being on a National Grid Wireless
multiplex instead of an ITV one, so could this have been a Red Bee fault
caption from BBC White City perhaps?

No, it goes no where near there.

"dB" wrote in message
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ITV2+1 on Freeview is an oddity, being on a National Grid Wireless
multiplex instead of an ITV one, so could this have been a Red Bee fault
caption from BBC White City perhaps?

No, it goes no where near there.

I thought that Freeview multiplexes 1, B, C, D were put together by
BBC/RedBee coding & multiplexing. ITV2+1 is on mux C or D (don't remember
which), so if it doesn't go there I wonder where it does go?

On Sat, 31 May 2008 20:04:57 +0100, ":Jerry:"
wrote:


"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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sniP

It seems from the DS posting made today, that the UPS let out a nice
fat spike.


There is some what of an irony in that, of all the devices to *cause*
an outage?! :~(

My broadcasting experience is that we'd have had fewer bits of broken
kit and fewer outages if we hadn't had any UPSs at all!

At out new building, we don't have any - just two kinetic batteries
and a generator that comes up before the KB's spin down.

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Z