RE: Excellent London Trip!

["Keith Doxey" <ukha.diyha@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Ian,

Good point.

Maybe all problems, no matter how small, e.g just the failure of a lamp
module to turn off, should be logged and after a month or two the log
should
be studied to try to identify any potential recurring faults.

No system can ever be 100% reliable, but it should be 99.999% reliable if
possible.

I am now going to revisit my ideas on emergency lighting after the 75% of
Great Yarmouth was plunged into darkness at 21:20 on Saturday night.
Attempting to find my way downstairs was scarey to say the least.
Thankfully
the power was only off for about 20 minutes but it was long enough.

Power cuts are pretty rare here, unlike for Mark where a standby generator
is essential, but I will be putting in some form of low voltage battery
backed lighting.

Keith

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 07 May 2001 00:17
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Excellent London Trip!
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>
> Well, that's us back home, safe and sound, and straight away, a
problem.
>
> The TM12 had locked up, meaning that our poor fish have just had
> the longest
> day in history!
>
> This of course means that the 8-in-1 control wasn't working,
> which probably
> left my housesitting sister sitting in the corner gnawing her arm off.
>
> this, as I see it, is the problem of a smart house. without thinking
about
> it, us techs do a lot of -on-the-fly maintenance, and when we
> aren't about,
> it doesn't take long for cracks to show.
>
> I think my next big task is going to be making the house more
"normal" in
> it's reliability!
>
> Ian.
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