vax thermostat?
scw at ucla-locus
scw at ucla-locus
Fri Aug 12 05:23:00 AEST 1983
From: Steve Woods <cepu!scw at ucla-locus>
We went a bit further than that in terms of monitoring
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"overtemp" stuff on the VAX power supplies is purportedly low
enough to avoid a fire, but high enough to fry your VAX real
good.
I used to work on an 11/40 that got fried when the Air-conditioning
people turned off the chilled water in our wing of the building; the
machine devloped wierd flakey intermentent problems after a few months,
such as hanging for 20-30 min then continuing (the only way you could
tell [if no one was on it] was the system date/time would be *WRONG*),
DEC Field service worked on the thing for 3 weeks and they couldn't fix
it until they went and replaced **EVERY** board in the CPU. It seems
that what happened was: each board had at least 2 chips that got
moved out to the end of their life span by being cooked.
Moral: it is a *****VERY***** good idea to have a thermal shutoff
switch/circut in you power supply.
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