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| Posted: 06 Dec 2021 10:37 PM PST This just happened a solid 30 minutes and two cups of coffee ago. Back Story: Army, Deployed, IT. Not awake yet, Don't judge. So there I was walking to work one cold morning. It's seem as though in Kuwait, 15 Celsius (59 Degrees) is actually freezing cold. I think to myself that I should probably start wearing 'Winter' clothing. I got to Kuwait at the beginning of their Summer, so I'm used to their 120+ degree weather, rather then the 60's we are at now. My important task of the day? Install a new UPS for our Switch stack since our last one died. Our stack has been hard shutting off every night when they fill the generators. Once or twice they failed to come back up on their own, So it's time. Due to circumstances prior to coming out here, my unit cannot buy our own equipment. This leaves us at the mercy of higher echelons to provide. Been roughly a solid 6 months since our last UPS died... But finally through the power of complaining enough we got a brand new UPS! I get to the office and ensure there is no one working before I cut the power to the stack. Once off I unpack the UPS and hook it up and make it look all purty before connecting it to the wall. I plug it into the wall. Nothing SlightPanic.Jpeg I look back at the UPS and realize the self test button is also the power button NoPanic.Jpeg I press the button, self test happens with a beep followed by a green light, nothing SlightPanic.Jpeg2 I grab the instructions and realize it says to hold the power button in for 3 seconds to power on. NoPanic.Jpeg I press the button in for 3 seconds, self test, green light, beep, nothing. Panic.Jpeg I look at the box and immediately see 120V/60hz in the product name. FeelKindaDumb.Jpeg. Everything on base is 220V/120hz, I don't know why we would even have an UPS here that won't work. But that makes sense as to why we got it then lol. I unplug everything from the UPS and remove it, and plug directly back into the wall, Nothing. RealPanic.Jpeg. I blew the breaker, Ops. Flipped the breaker switch and it powered up just fine. I got scared for a moment that when I blew the UPS I blew the Stack as well when it didn't turn back on when plugged into the wall. It's too early for this shenanigan's. I'm bout to drink my third cup of coffee. TL;DR: Got a new UPS, wasn't the right power type, blew a breaker, and got upsetttispahgetti for a moment. Side Note: Camel Milk doesn't taste half bad, Goes good with coffee. The more you know. [link] [comments] |
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