Ah, so it was insurance against basement flooding more than just on
12/31/99. Then the expense may be more prudent than I first thought. But why 'lite-off' 2 hours ahead of schedule? Seems like you were still a bit worried.Yes, the older/simpler systems had less to worry about than the state-of-the-art. But even so, much of the concerns were just 'hype'. In your review of the system controls, how many devices did you find that would really fail? In the two plants I was working with at that time, we found a few dataloggers would give incorrect interval calculations for that
15-minute interval, and that was about it. All the process controls were/are date-independent. The only thing that could have shut us down was if the grid unloaded us.And I think you meant August 14th (the northeast blackout happened 8/14/2003 at 16:11 at our plant).
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