Hello

It was the maintenance contract field engineer that demonstrated it to me so
presumably it's not dangerous to the library, just alarming.    Mind you, it was
the same guy who bent that SCSI pin which caused us a week of problems...

Regards,
John I Wang
Sr. Systems Engineer
Steverson Information Professionals

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I don't think so, but I have bcc'ed one of my contacts there, hoping they would
know the right person to ask this of. I'll share the answer when I get it.

JF

On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 05:41:35PM -0800, W. Curtis Preston spake unto the
multitudes:
>
> I've heard this complaint before, and I wish they would fix it.  He is
> referring to what happens when you actually lose power.  Is it dangerous to
> the library when this happens?
>
> At 04:28 PM 11/30/00 -0800, Joshua Fielden wrote:
> > > When power is dropped, the arm free falls to the bottom with the only
> > drag being
> > > that of the pulleys.   It would've been nice if the arm had been better
> > counter
> > > weighted or had some kind of brake to support it's weight in the power off
> > > situation, at least nicer than hearing that unsettling whine followed by a
> > > thunk.
> >
> >Are you using the 'shutdown' procedure from the panel, or just pulling
> >power after the JB is quieted?
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