Gyron Blog » snow http://blog.gyron.net Purveyors of fine quality datacentre services since 2000. Tue, 11 May 2010 16:56:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Merry Christmas! http://blog.gyron.net/bloggery/merry-christmas/ http://blog.gyron.net/bloggery/merry-christmas/#comments Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:30:56 +0000 Robin Balen - Gyron http://blog.gyron.net/?p=588 We’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of our customers for their support and business over the previous 12 months, and wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year.

Instead of sending out Christmas cards this year we have again made a donation to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children where over 150,000 sick children are treated every year.

We’d also like to particularly thank our NOC Technicians and Security Officers who are staffing both our LHC and Centro sites on a 24/7 basis over the entire holiday period in order to provide our customers with the continuous support they’re used to!

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]]> http://blog.gyron.net/bloggery/merry-christmas/feed/ 0 Centro generator snow start test http://blog.gyron.net/bloggery/centro-generator-snow-start-test/ http://blog.gyron.net/bloggery/centro-generator-snow-start-test/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:30:00 +0000 Robin Balen - Gyron http://blog.gyron.net/?p=584 As part of our extensive Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedule at our Centro datacentre facility, we run start tests on our generators every two weeks.

These generators provide stand-by power in the unlikely event of a utility outage on both HV supplies to the datacentre. We store enough diesel on-site to run the entire facility for around 4 days, and we have fuel resupply agreements with multiple fuel providers to ensure we can continue operating from generator power even in case of a prolonged outage.

We posted an image of the snow that had settled at Centro over on our Twitter page (over a foot deep in most places!), but as a generator start test was scheduled for today, we’ve uploaded the CCTV footage as an extra bonus:

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Our generators are constantly heated and their starter batteries kept fully charged to ensure they are available as quickly as possible to provide backup power to our facility.

During this start test, the outside temperature was around -1C, and both generators started, synced and closed their breakers on to our main switchgear in 18 seconds, well within normal operating tolerances (we have battery supplies for our UPS system to last around 10 minutes before the generators kick in). The generators are run for around 30 minutes, during which time the on-board management computers are checked to ensure that there are no faults.

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]]> http://blog.gyron.net/bloggery/centro-generator-snow-start-test/feed/ 0 Snow at Centro http://blog.gyron.net/pictures/snow-at-centro/ http://blog.gyron.net/pictures/snow-at-centro/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:12:36 +0000 Robin Balen - Gyron http://blog.gyron.net/?p=202 Here’s a quick photo of Centro covered in a nice layer of snow. Fortunately the heating in the office is now up and running so it’s not sub-zero inside.

Snow at Centro

Snow at Centro

Stay tuned next week for some big updates!

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]]> http://blog.gyron.net/pictures/snow-at-centro/feed/ 0 Snow! http://blog.gyron.net/bloggery/snow/ http://blog.gyron.net/bloggery/snow/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:53:43 +0000 Robin Balen - Gyron http://blog.gyron.net/?p=173 It’s not so great news for those stuck on the roads, but on the upside, there are some great views from our datacentre in London today with all the snow settling on the ground!

Snow near the LHC datacentre

Snow near the LHC datacentre

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