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[FP] Bad storms rolling through

It's starting to thunder here, so I'll be shutting down Foldy2. It's connected to a UPS, but the batteries on it are no good, and I don't trust them. I'll bring it back up when the storms are past.

Foldy2 is back up and running. It's just raining here now. I will be replacing the batteries in the UPS tomorrow.

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Back up here as well as of about 7 am.
I wish it would stop raining.
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Speaking of those UPS units, I learned a hard lesson back in December 2006 when we had a power outage. Mine were all on good UPS units, but I hadn't bothered to install the included software, had not configured them to operate other than at default.

Default, apparently, just shut the computer down when the power went off and then restarted shortly after it returned. That had always worked fine for me, but that 2006 storm caused multiple power events in rapid succession which resulted in murdering most of the equipment I had up and folding at the time.

I have a smaller farm now, but I have configured my UPS software to shut down after a short power outage and to stay down until I manually bring it all back up. I am hoping that is a safer plan.

I don't know if that is possible for all UPS units. I run APC SmartUPS with PowerChute software.
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This is how I have all of mine configured. I'll bring the damn things back up when I'm ready. I've barbecued a power supply or two due to over-cycling before I changed those settings.

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Here we go again. When the lightning picks up a little more, Foldy8's taking a brief nap. We're due to get some pretty nasty storms through here shortly.
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Yeah, I'm shutting foldy2 down now.

I'm sick of storms...

Foldy2 is back up and running. We got missed this time...

Pretty lights outside here right now ...

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Up again.

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Aaaaanndd....down again. I expect to bring them back up after this new line of storms rolls through.
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Foldy2 and Foldy8 are roller-coasters lately... Foldy2 has been shut down as well...

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Foldy2 is back up and running. I have the new UPS batteries, and will install them tomorrow afternoon when I get home from work. I have already installed apcupsd on foldy2 and set it up.

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Back up as well.

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You two are certainly getting an initiation to folding Ops!

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Gotta love mid-Missouri weather in the spring.

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I don't know if "love" is the right word for Mid-Missouri weather...

UPS batteries have been replaced, and the software is running OK.

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Foldy2 has been shut down due to bad storms coming in tonight, and my building's A/C is out of service due to a blown fan motor. I'll bring it back online once the A/C is repaired.

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Severe weather is coming this way again. I'm taking everything down again.