Republic Day
Yesterday was Republic Day in India, as well as Australia Day back home. The project team celebrated the founding of the Indian Republic by trying to work hard.
In the morning Tushar(the IT Manager) and myself managed to setup the servers and other equipment in the rack. At about noon we had everything running and working in the rack and then the power went out. We did not worry though because we had a nice big UPS. We went and had some lunch and then moved up to the site office.
Everything was going fine for about 30 minutes and then the servers stopped responding to our laptops. I went down to investigate and found that our big UPS had gone flat.
We waited for the power to come up and it didn’t come back up. I was offered the use of the generator and decided that yes I wanted to use it. So they went to try and start it. The first obstacle was fuel, they managed to take some from one of the contractors. Then once they had the fuel they tried to start the generator only to discover that the battery was flat. So we tried to jump start the generator by linking it to a bob cat(front end loader, JVC or whatever you want to call it) and tried the generator again. With the power we tried starting to run the generator but it didn’t work. We had a “magnetic prick failure” after that point I gave up and went back to sit in the office and wait to go home.
The power was not restored whilst we were at the site, and we ended up leaving at 4pm which is about 3 hours earlier then normal.
Moral to the story, only work half days on public holidays.